•Greetings all, In the past few days both Larry Broadmoore and Craig Brougher have mentioned using pouch leather with a thickness of .008". Where, I wonder, are you fellows finding it? Everything I've had the opportunity to examine lately, procured from all the usual suspects, has come in between .0...

•I'd wish Dan Armstrong lots of luck with his Gulbransen stack. Gulbransen's policy apparently was, if it quits, replace it. There used to be a fellow (I think in Indiana) that advertised that he'd do Gulbransen stacks. Someone on the list might remember him. He also did M. Schulz stacks. Either one...

•It is my understanding that the term "Stenciled" for pianos meant that a piano was made by a piano manufacturer and the name of the dealer or distributor placing the order was allowed to have their name stenciled onto the piano. In the Jackson, Michigan, area Mahar Bros. music company was a music d...

•I must agree with Craig Brougher's post in yesterday's Digest about the use of Polylon. In a large percentage of the pianos which have been through my shop, there is Polylon in various colors and from various sources which was installed (although I used PVC-E glue rather than hide glue) as long ago...

•The thread in recent digests prompts me to note that I have a CD on the VOX PRIMA label (MMG) titled "Music for Glass Harmonica". Bruno Hoffmann is the performer, and there is a group composed of flute, oboe, violins, viola, cello and bass. The tracks include: 1) Mozart: Adagio and Rondo in C minor...

•Kieselhorst Piano Co. did not exist as such. Here in St. Louis there was a Kieselhorst department store in the olden days that did a huge business in pianos, so much so that they had pianos specially made for them. These are stencil pianos. I have one of them that we believe was made by Schulz and ...

•Re: 000915 MMDigest In MMD 00.09.16, Mark Williamson asked about a srange player... > The most unusual feature is the tracking device. > This consists of a bar in the spool box above where the roll goes. It > has 2 very short bars hinged onto the first bar at either end. These > short bars have a w...

•Hello MMD readers, For some time, I've seen a series of postings devoted to the "why" of the Player-Piano industry decline, which began after World War One and then accelerated with the development of radio (especially the alternating current models, which apparently began with the Atwater-Kent rec...

•I refinished the mahogany (Honduran) on a 1959 Owens cruising boat. Much of the wood was completely bleached since it hadn't been taken care of for many years and completely exposed to the weather. I used a marine stain filler and the color was beautiful and consistent. It produced a brilliant tran...

•I have to ask why any one would want to build a new stack for a Gulbransen player? There are an awful lot of these beasts around that nobody really wants. For dozens of years no tech would even consider restoring one, they would opt to replace the stack with some other type that they would retrofit...

•Over the weekend I was able to access and sort a box of valve parts from Mike Kitner's estate. There are about a dozen or so plastic valves of experimental design. These are clear plastic and seem to have neoprene gaskets. They are glued together and can not really be repaired. Most of the unit val...

•Well, welcome to MMD, Mr. Kieselhorst. I, too, would like to know more about Kieselhorst Dept Store. I have several Kieselhorst pianos I found right here in St. Louis. I also have seen many piano rolls with your name on them. I have had numerous long-time St. Louisans tell me about Kieselhorst Depa...

•Hi all, Ms. Leginska was certainly a phenomenon during her day. I have heard say that she was a pyromaniac at the keyboard. The only Ampico roll I have of her playing (The Blue Danube Concert Arabesque) well demonstrates her technical prowess. Anyway, the following is a list of her rolls on Duo-Art...

•I must make a correction to my note in the MMD for 06.10.03. The advice about having the pneumatics falling closed under their own weight did not come from Craig Brougher. At least not pertaining to striker pneumatics. Here is Craig's email to me. It explains how to remedy a glue problem close to t...

•I just acquired a roll of "Hi Neighbor", by Jack Owens, played by Pep Doyle, dated 1941. My question is about how this song relates to a radio program of the 1950s. There was some sort of comedy show, or it might have been part of an ongoing skit on a variety show of the time, wherein the running j...

•Rex Lawson will be performing at the pianola at the Royal College of Music, as part of the BBC Proms Sunday, August 9 at 5:45pm. See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2009/whatson/plus.shtml "Rex Lawson introduces the pianola, and performances of music by Chopin, Stravinsky, J. Strauss II (arr. Schulz-Ev...

•Hi, Does anyone have any help on regulating the stack of an Autopiano to the action? Mine is made in 1914 by the Autopiano Company out of New York. I wanted to know how do you regulate the stack to the piano, any help or pictures or diagrams would be great. I know on my M. Schulz piano there are li...

•A friend of mine, David Hollinger, in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, has taken apart a large number of pre-1935 players and has stack units, bellows units and some miscellaneous parts for sale. Makes include Standard, Simplex, Schulz, Otto Higel, Gulbransen and Aeolian. I have posted the list on my web...

•A friend of mine, David Hollinger, in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, has taken apart a large number of pre-1935 players and has stack units, bellows units and some miscellaneous parts for sale. Makes include Standard, Simplex, Schulz, Otto Higel, Gulbransen and Aeolian. I have posted the list on my web...

•I'm sitting here wondering if this is a race and is there a prize at the end... Name that tune: I can restore the player piano in 2 weeks; I can restore it in 10 days; I can restore it in 6 days; restore that player piano! I think the question here is what are you doing in your restoration? Are you...