Dave:

You wrote:
> I won't forget my first exposure to a player piano was in a western
> movie where the player piano was sitting in front of a store (or
> saloon). It was back in the early 1950s, so some details are not that
> clear. However I do realize now that if the time period of the movie
> was before 1900, that kind of player was not around. Am I right about
> this?  That enclosed players did not appear until the early twentieth
> century?

The first player I restored was an AutoPiano back in 1975. The piano it
was in was a Kohler & Chas. I don't know the year the piano was made,
it was to far gone to restore so I didn't bother to investigate. But
the date handwritten in the secondary valve chest of the player action
was June 6, 1898, along with the initials J.H.E. It is an, 88 note
player.

Tim Mattice