In 011202 MMDigest John Collier wrote of a German Obermeier Imperiola
player piano "which appears to have been restored because it has new
clear plastic hoses throughout, with a national hardware-lumber dealer
price tags still on the tubing."  He asks if "anyone know anything
about this German piano ... and maybe how to trouble shoot the problem
and get it working again?"

I do not know anything about this particular piano, but I do know
about that 'clear plastic tubing'.  Unless the national hardware-lumber
dealer's name is "Pianos-R-Us", you'd better get that plastic tubing
out of it asap.

If it is the typical stuff put in to retube the piano cheaply, it will
someday soon fill the piano mechanism with sticky goop as a result of
the out-gassing of the vinyl plastic material.

Get some rubber tubing of the correct size, and swap the plastic stuff
out to the dust bin.  Perhaps the fact that it doesn't work means that
it is already too late.

Regards,
Craig Smith