I've sure appreciated this latest thread on potential fires in
automatic pianos.  I have a friend with a beautiful Steinway Duo-Art
artcase grand who left a piano on (tempo 0) to answer a phone call,
only to return a half hour later to a VERY hot motor which he couldn't
handle with his bare hands as he tried to remove it from the piano -
very scary, and certainly another near-disaster for this round of
horror stories.  The knowledge we have all gained from this thread has
alread prevented more than one fire, I dare say!

My reason for writing however is to say I have an upright Stoddard
Ampico with a worn-out push-pull switch which forces me to manually
shut off the piano after the roll is through rewinding.  I've asked
everyone I know how to fix this, including Art Reblitz and Durrell
Armstrong, and still no luck.  I agree with Craig, we really need a
solution to this problem, and I could use one right now.

thx,¶
Rob DeLand¶
(deland_robert@macmail1.csg.mot.com)