I started my hobby of rebuilding player piano's about 3 years ago when I
was at a house that was being torn down and I saw an old player piano
laying on it's side out in the yard. I talked to the contractor and we
agreeded that I would pay him $10 for the piano and another $10 to haul
it to my house. After much head scratching and reading the one book that
the public library had on rebuilding player piano's, I had this one
playing. Needless to say, I was hooked. So far I have rebuilt 2 simplex
players and currently I am rebuilding another Simplex and a Starr
player. Now I get people calling me wanting to sell me old players "That
just need a little bit of work".  Does the same happen to the rest of you?

I am so happy to find this mailing list, because I have so much more to
learn and from reading some of the mail form this group, there is a lot of
experience to ask help from!  So I guess I'll start with a question.

Can anyone tell me what they have found to be a good test vacuum source?
I hope to correspond with all of you soon, but you will have to bear with
me for I am new to the internet and I am a two finger typest.  Glad to be
aboard!¶
                              Brett Mohr

P.S. Jody you asked how I found your group, well I did a search in Yahoo
with player piano as the key words and after digging around a little I
found you.  Thanks again.

E-mail mmohr@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu