•I have not been following the nipple discussion but I have antique tracker bars with the nipples soldered in them, 90 or so nipples in each bar. A little heat, pull them out, and off you go. If nipples were 25 cents each then the trackers would be $20 each. I will put them on my web site, or just c...

•I am sure that several restorers have a pile of old player parts that they would like to turn into cash, but I hate to see old tracker bars being stripped of their nipples. These older tracker bars are usually of better weight and mechanical quality than the ones that were made for the modern playe...

•I purchased a miniature barrel piano at an auction. Can anyone tell me anything about it? It was made by Enrique Salva of Barcelona, Spain. Also can someone tell me any place to get a crank manufactured? It was missing but the mini-piano is in excellent condition. Thank You Jeff Scott, Orlando, Flo...

•I am moving an old upright with a Standard player action out of someone's basement this week. It has to come up a bulkhead -- these are always fun. Since no one wanted it 'for the moving', I'll get paid to tip it in the bin. The piano is not worth fixing but if anyone wants a particular item from t...

•Can anyone tell me anything about The Salvation Army in connection with mechanical music? I am a Salvationist and come from a Salvationist family. My grandparents had a Lagonda(?) player piano which my parents acquired for me to take lessons on about 20 years ago. Unfortunately they followed the ad...

•A couple of years ago I made inquires as to whether or not The Salvation Army had ever produced any player piano rolls. To date I have found no evidence to suggest that they did. However... Browsing on eBay I found the following: Item # 899696513 : 1885 Gem Roller Organ COB-CLIMBINGgoldenSTAIR Pate...

•Hi, My name is David Jameson and I repair pianos and player pianos in the Plainview, Texas, area. Recently I have run out of old piano action parts and am trying to locate sources of old parts that I can restore. I'm on a tight budget and hope to buy the parts for a nominal fee. Free would be great...

•The owner of three player pianos in Northern England says she will be smashing them up at the weekend as she needs them out the way and they are not easily removed from where they are. Apparently all three instruments have water damage to the cases, quite severe in places. Two are upright, one is a...

•Okay, let's say that I have a piano that once contained a Duo-Art and I want to re-install a set of parts from a gutted machine. I buy the complete set and start to rebuild it. Everything comes to perfection and then I try to install it. Voilá! The action stack doesn't fit. It needs to be remodeled...

•I almost had the same problem as Eliyahu Shahar described in yester- day's MMD. A friend asked me to find an action for his gutted Duo-Art. I didn't find an action that would fit in his budget. So I never started it, but I did however collect some information on how to do the job. The main answer i...

•Greetings all, I just finished doing a little work on one of those small barrel pianos made in Spain, so I thought I would archive some of the particulars of this instrument. The label of this one says "Enrique Salva, Barcelona". The serial number is 467. The case is 24" high x 22" wide x 12" deep...

•Hi, I'm new here. I joined because I just acquired this great old Spanish crank piano. I guess they call it a barrel piano. It is very much out of tune but seems to function otherwise. I bought it on a thrift store for $28. I would love to know how to restore it, and of course, what it might be wor...

•I have restored several of these Spanish street pianos as well as some larger German and French full sized ones. Here is the last small one I did which needed new tuning pins because of the weather change and the fact that in Europe they used 1/0 tuning pins. Also there were several other things th...

•Hello, I am currently restoring an Enrique Salva miniature barrel piano of the common 32-note size. It is missing a few components which I need to replicate. 1) When a tune is changed, the key-frame is moved out of the way of the barrel pins whilst the barrel shifts sideways, as is normal with all ...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- I have six pipes or tubes from the pipe organ that was salvaged from the Westmoreland, CA theater in 1935. Is there an interest? Could you point me in the right directions. Thanks

•Organ Grinders everywhere -- If you have a spare hour in the next several days, and want to do something really fun and productive, contact your local Salvation Army and volunteer to grind at a Red Kettle. You won't believe the great response you'll get from passersby. It's possible to collect over...

•I have been told of a person who "parts out" old pipe organs, theatre organs etc. The location may be in Kansas, but I am not sure. This business has been going on quite some time and may be known to MMD readers. Has any reader heard of such a business and if so, could they provide contact informat...

•Ken Vinen wrote, "I have been told of a person who 'parts out' old pipe organs, theatre organs etc. The location may be in Kansas, but I am not sure." You are no doubt referring to Bob Maes' "Pipe Organ Restorations" of (I think) Kansas City. I do know that his warehouse suffered a devastating fire...

•Ken Vinen wrote: > I have been told of a person who "parts out" old pipe organs, > theatre organs etc. The location may be in Kansas, but I am not > sure. This business has been going on quite some time and may be > known to MMD readers. Has any reader heard of such a business and > if so, could th...

•I am looking for an old player piano close to Oil City, Pennsylvania. Hopefully one that doesn't play and has a million and one problems, as I want to scrap it for parts. If someone is willing to just sell me parts, then I will pay top dollar. Regards, Kent Zacherl