•To replace missing or torn roll leaders, it works well to color copy a good roll leader and superimpose a color copy from the box of the description. Then splice it to the roll with "Magic Tape". The copiers at the copy stores have 11" x 17" capability for the 11-1/2" wide leader, and reproduce it ...

•I don't have this roll. It is a nice piece but this recording is played too fast, say on the "Tempo scale", probably by 15 (fast.). I have a recording on a cassette tape I made some years ago, of good well-known ragtime music, hand-played by a person I cannot remember. The tunes are 'ruined' by a t...

•The re-start of the restoration of my Steger action has been going along smoothly, and this afternoon when I tested the stack with the pneumatics attached plus the primary pouch board screwed down tight (and a piece of tape covering the tracker-holes on the top front of the primary board), most of ...

•I am currently rebuilding a Tangley CA-43 calliope which appears to have undergone a rebuild some time back. The restorer used RTV Silicone II for seating and sealing of all of the unit valves. There was also a bit of duct tape on the stack, so let's not call it a restoration. I am guessing that th...

•There is an updated version of Bruce Clark's excellent article about regulating the Ampico A at John Tuttle's Player-Care site: https://www.player-care.com/ampicreg.html In the updated article Bruce recommends removing the 1B and 1T tubes from the crescendo devices to cause the expression mechanism...

•With a roll-repair table repairing even very damaged rolls is quite easy. The most important thing is to use Neschen filmoplast P; both the tape and the adhesive are archival and this tape is very much thinner than Scotch Magic tape. For repairing the edge of the roll I save money and cut the filmo...

•I'm checking with the brain trust to make sure I've got this right. With the head removed from the wind chest, I've taped off the note hole channels and the vacuum supply channels. When applying vacuum to the supply nipple underneath, no pneumatics should close, correct? Then when I remove the tape...

•A question has come up about the completeness of Wurlitzer roll 13120, which starts with "Charlie My Boy." The recording of roll 13120 issued by Bill Black's "Carrousel Music" on a tape cassette, has only the last 58 seconds of that tune. My online Wurlitzer 150 roll catalog shows that the Howe col...

•When I was but a little tike, I built a very elaborate LEGO APP Player Piano and it had a spot for a paper roll and all. A little portable tape recorder sat behind it and played a recording of Paul Eakins' Wurlitzer APP. That LEGO piano might still be in my mother's basement. Grüß, Karl Schröder ...

•Further to Spencer Chase's reply on this subject, where he describes use of strips of cloth to act as limiters to prevent accordions stretching. For those instruments made by Aeolian in London, use of tapes to prevent stretching was common practise. My Duo-Art came with them, and I simply reused th...

•The check valve is simply a piece of plastic slightly larger than the intake hole. It is held in place by a piece of tape that also acts as the hinge. It's located just below the intake flange at the top of the suction box. It's quite easy to dislodge. Perhaps that happened to you. To do a 5-minute...

•[ Ref. Jim Miller in 210925 MMDigest ] Fascinating story, I visited the Superscope Marantz PianoCorder recording studio about 35 years ago and witnessed the Welte electro-pneumatic ten-roll changer and also the super-duper ultra high speed PianoCorder cassette tape duplicator. (Jazz pianist and mus...

•I suggest using a non-contact laser digital tachometer to measure the speed of rotating things like pulleys, Mills Violano Virtuoso bow wheels, air motors, etc. You put a small piece of reflective tape on the shaft and the tachometer counts the number of time it goes around in a given time. The rea...

•I am slowly working through the repair of the 35-key Limonaire that I got last year. I have a question about the tubing. This had all been replaced with 3/8" vinyl tubing, which with a little tape fit okay. I will replace it with proper tubing. However, the problem is the diameter of the various ni...

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Hi everybody, Does anybody know where to obtain Crompton Paper Repair Tissue? This is used in the repair of valuable manuscripts in the Antique Book trade. The advantage of this product over all other repair tapes for rolls is that it is ironed on to the roll with a lukewarm iron. It also comes in s...

We are also in need of a certain type of piano bench. Our piano is a Mason & Hamlin William & Mary Walnut. The legs are sort of a tapered Hexagon. Something similar would probably be fine. Thanks, Bill & Dee Kavouras

By far and away, the most trouble proof hammers are Abel Hammers (German) available from Wally Brooks. Old Lyme, CT 800-326-2440 I have a hammer boring jig but he does such an excellent job of boring and tapering that I let him do it. He can even pre-hang a set. Great results! These hammers need ver...

•I've CD with a 1944 recording of Beethovens Klavierkonzert V with Gieseking and the Berlin Symphonia. The tapes have been in Moscow too, but a lot of those tapes came back to Germany after 1990. regards Gerhard Dangel-Reese Augustinermuseum Salzstr.32, D-79098 Freiburg fon *49-761-201-2528, fax *49...

•Mike Carey was asking about the felt stuffed in the expression box of his Duo-Art. He should replace that with 1/4" thick muffler felt (made by taking 3/8" or 1/2" thick felt and splitting or separating it). It works best to taper it with a felt knife, roll it around a 1/4" drill shank, and stuff i...