Dear All,

I fear I have made a terrible mistake with glue.  When a professional was
showing me the ropes of player piano rebuilding a few years ago, he
rebuilt my resivor bellows using this rubbery (when dry) type glue
called "plastic glue".  You can buy it from the player piano co.. I was
concerned now though because in the book about rebuilding the player
piano by Arthur Reblitz (which is a great book) he says only to use hot
glue or hyde glue on the bellows you mix up in a glue pot, or in a
double boiler on your stove.  Will my bellows hold?  They're very
airtight?

Anyway, I want to use the correct hot glue on my supply bellows because
they're going to get some hard useage, so I was wondering if anyone had
any tips on how to use hot glue and shellac.  I need to use shellac to
seal my new boards I had to make for my supply bellows as the
originals have broken.

My old Beckwith needs the piano almost totally rebuilt and I haven't
ever rebuilt a piano before.  I can take it apart, as any idiot could,
but I am leary of trying to fix it.  I am going to get the book "Piano
Tuning, Servicing, and Rebuilding" by Arthur Reblitz, so will this tell
me what I need to do, and will I be able to do it with that book? (i.e.
re-string patch soundboard, rebuild bass clef, replace hammers, and
bridal straps, ect.)  I really don't want to screw anything up!

Damon Atchison¶
Damon66@aol.com

P.S. I have use of a Pierce Piano Atlas for a while if anyone needs me to look
something up.