Regarding the questions about Jacob Doll & Sons Players.  I don't have
alot of information, but do have a Doll player I rebuilt a number of
years ago (it's actually the piano that made me retire up my rebuilding
zest, but that's a different story).

The piano is very nice quality with strong bass.  The hammer action has
brass flanges which are a nuisance to rebuilders, but otherwise a very
well built instrument.

The player action is a Jacob Doll design, with a transposing tracker bar,
sustain and sustenuto controlled buttons on the key slip.  It was tubed
for an auto rewind feature, but does not have one installed.  The early
players had a special stack with inverted pneumatics (facing forward)
but they later players had a standard stack.  The tracker bar has an
unusual "finger" which rides along the roll which activates the tracker
mechanism.

The case on my piano is mahogany, and is a nice looking wood.

I could forward Jpegs or Gifs to the poster if necessary, including a
close up of the fall board decal.

Regards,
Scott Currier

scott.currier@lodgenet.com

 [ Editor's Note:
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 [ Now that we've got effectively infinite disk space for the
 [ Web site, I'd encourage you to forward image files, along
 [ with captions to be used on the pictures.  My personal
 [ preference is JPEG encoding.
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 [ Thanks
 [ Jody