•Thank you to those who replied to my posting (MMD 00.09.15) regarding my recently purchased Steinbach Player Piano. I checked John Tuttle's web site and was able to confirm (by the line drawing of the lower pump assembly) that this instrument contains the Schulz player action. Mark A. Williamson o|...

•For sale: Werner Piano Co., Chicago, circa 1919, Schulz action. The player mechanisms have been partially rebuilt. I have lost interest in it and would like to get $500 for it. The piano is located in Dayton Ohio. If anyone is interested, please email me and I will send you particulars as to the co...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- Hi everyone, Just thought I would crow a little bit. After a very long sleep my 1935 Starck with Schulz action is making music again. I would like to thank everyone who has supplied me with answers to the many questions I had during the rebuild. ...

•For sale, free to a good home: Werner player piano, circa 1920, with a Schulz action. Piano has had no work done on it and the case is good but with very dark finish. Main pump and all below the keybed rebuilt about 20 years ago. Upper action is disassembled, striker pneumatics recovered and reglue...

•After restoring over 35 player pianos with great results, including two M. Schulz and two Cecillians ( boy, was I brave!), I now have an Art Apollo expression piano that came with all the tubing removed. Nothing else is missing, just the tubing. Is there a tubing diagram anywhere in the world I cou...

•Player Piano Parts Inc. is finally out of fiber washers. I have two customers, one with a Schulz and the other a screw-on Gulbransen, both requiring fiber washers to do the job. From the old Player Piano Co. (PPCo) catalog: (Gulbransen) #668, 1-1/8" OD, 7/16" ID (Schulz) #670, 1-1/2" OD, 1/2" ID, ...

•Hello. I am a new subscriber to the MMDigest. I would like to ask some simple questions, if I may. I recently acquired a 1917 Schulz Walworth player piano. This piano appears to have been rebuilt about 15 to 20 years ago as the piano looks beautiful, the piano action looks new and the player mechan...

•I have a copy of the piano roll, "The Blue Danube Concert Arabesques on Motifs by Johann Strauss", by Schulz-Evler, played by Ethel Leginska. The Ampico rollography by Obenchain does not list this as played by Josef Lhevinne. My roll is a bit beat up but, I believe, suitable for scanning if someone...

•I have an original copy of Ampico 63233-H, "Blue Danube (Concert Arabesques on Waltz by Strauss) Schulz-Evler, played by Mischa Levitzki". This roll is one of "The Favorite Fifty" with the "story" printed on the leader. I'm willing to loan this roll for a recut depending upon MMD interest. Ray Baue...

•With regard to the following, I have scanned the roll and will give the necessary files to anyone who wants to recut it. > I have an original copy of Ampico 63233-H, "Blue Danube (Concert > Arabesques on Waltz by Strauss) Schulz-Evler, played by Mischa > Levitzki". Best regards, Spencer Chase Garbe...

•Hi All, I have the following six different recordings of The Blue Danube the first two are the Schulz-Evler arrg the others do not make that claim: 53927 Leginska 63233 Levitzki 67563 Lhevinne 64233 Fairchild A coded version " " B coded " 52327 Brockway I am willing to send any or all of these to D...

•Happy New Year MMDers! I just went through my first Christmas Holiday with my new turn-of-the-century audio visual experience -- a 1917 Schulz player piano. I had a great time entertaining the family and friends and, as a result, I received numerous gifts of player piano rolls. Some rolls needed re...

•Luke, the value of the cast iron plate isn't much, maybe $5; scrap metal is pretty cheap right now. Werners were pretty good pianos in their day and usually had a Schulz player. Schulz players are a bit tricky to restore, but once done, they are good players. Those little valve pneumatics will driv...

•This is both speculative and dimly-remembered, but here's one theory. One day in the 1950s my father brought home an album by German pianist Fritz Schulz-Reichel performing as "Der schräge Otto" or "Crazy Otto". He played ragtime on an out-of-tune piano. He, in turn, might have done what I think a ...

•Hallo Jody and Robbie! I hope all is a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! In regard to the talented German pianist Fritz Schulz-Reichel performing as "Der schräge Otto", and the idea that he may have based his performances on old, out-of-tune player pianos without knowing how to regulate the spe...

•* Walter Johannes Wilhelm Wurl (May 13, 1881-Jan. 21, 1951) -- born and died in Martinsville/North Tonawanda, New York; wife: Ella (Eleanor Henriette Louise Schulz) Wurl (1881-1975). Foreman in Wurlitzer's Music Dept., known there simply as "Walter Wurl." Noted on roll masters in Herschell Carrouse...

•Further to Terry Smythe's message on the method he used to send me some information, from my end the system worked very well, my email program, Eudora, automatically stored the files in a home directory and then I opened them with Winfax fax viewer and printed them out with a Canon inkjet printer t...

Greetings, all! Two very minor observations that I would like to make. First, Doug Vensel was recently quoted as calling the player piano the first "computer". One of the first would probably be more accurate. I believe that the distinction of being the first "computer" would have to go to the "Jacq...

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•Greetings: I'm a piano technician. Some years ago I acquired a Mason & Hamlin Ampico, serial #RA 36231. It is in original condition, has good soundboard and bridges, and needs to be rebuilt. I also have small Mason & Risch upright with a Welte reproducing system, also original condition (needs tota...