I am just getting started on my Cremona "G" piano with open flutes.  I've
been putting it off for several years while working on other people's
stuff.  I decided since my shop is over crowded right now I would restore
it as I take it apart and do the piano last.

I did the unit valves in the top of the case and hated the valves.
I hoped that the stack had different valves perhaps with a lower guide
but they are the same with only the top guide and the stem screwed into
the pouch through a two fiber disc's.

Has anyone restored enough of these instruments to be able to suggest
what problems to look out for before they happen?  Is there a "helpful
hint" for setting these pouches with the hole in the fiber disc in the
right position for a vertical valve stem after the top board is in place?
I know it's never easy but any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,¶
Randy Hayno

P.S.  I found this piano in Mississippi and it was in near perfect never
been touched unrestored condition only missing the motor.  Still being
near the Gulf there is a lot of rust but I'm used to that.  The man I
bought it from had removed the bottom pneumatic deck and split the 20
pneumatic boards off it (badly) and numbered none of them.  :-))

At least he left the other two alone and gave up and his wife finally
convinced him to sell it to me.  (I like his wife, a very sensible
woman.)