> clarets@ozemail.com.au Wrote:
> 
>  Subj: Schultz Player Pianos   Area: 0-sic.makers.piano   Date: 02/10/96
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> Anyone have any info or experience in restoring these instruments? I
> have one in fair/good condition that I am currently restoring and
> would appreciate advice from anyone who has traveled the same road.

A few years ago I encountered a very late Schultz action in which they
abandoned the double pneumatic system for a more conventional pouch &
valve.  The exterior of the stack is identical to the older one in the
way the pneumatics, lifters and regulating buttons are placed, and how
it mounts in the piano.   When ever I get one of the older style stacks,
I fabricate a whole new stack using the most of the old hardware.  I keep
very close track of my time on most of my projects and have found it is
more cost effective and makes for less problems just to make a new stack
that is more serviceable.  I do the same with Gulbransen and sometimes
Wurlitzer, H.C.Bay, old style Ampion, and other glued together actions.
This also makes for an easier job for the second time around.

Brian Thornton¶
Short Mountain Music Works¶
109 n. Cannon St.¶
Woodbury, TN 37190¶
BTHORNTON@DELPHI.COM¶
615-563-5814