Player parts missing

[Les Smith]

Hi, Lar.

I don't have the needed parts, however: 1) the shut-off pneumatic is
simple emough that you can probably fabricate one from scratch in less
time than it will take to rebuild the malfunctioning original which was
always pulling off to the side and missing the shut-off switch by about
1/2". 2) PPC has a bunch of miscellaneous parts for the modern Aeolian
players and may be a source for those springs. 3) It's a good thing that
previous teknishun wasn't a perfekshunist, because if he had kept re-
moving parts in an effort to correct problems, right now you'd be star-
ing at an empty spot on the showroom floor and the only things remaining
would be the caster impressions in the rug! The best thing about those
modern Aeolian players was that by comparison they made a HC Bay jumker
from the 20's look like a technical marvel from the golden age of the
player piano. 

Les Smith
lessmith@buffnet.net

On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Larry Fisher wrote:

> Yo list,
> 
> Some teknishun decided to fix an Aeolian player (60's vintage) by removing
> parts until the problem quite!@%@@!!  You read right folks.  I managed to
> put it all back together at the dealership previous to a sale when the
> missing parts mysteriously showed up laying in the spool box a few days
> after my initial findings.  The sale fell through, the piano returned
> (kinda like a homing pidgeon) and a few weeks later, wouldn't ya know, them
> parts evaporated!!  AGAIN!!!   This is truly amazing.  Well, I put up the
> usual fuss about all this and notified all the 2ners I could think of that
> might have worked on it, but to no avail.  Soooooo  I'm now in need of the
> following .......
> 
> auto shut off pneumatic  (lower left outside spoolbox pushes on white micro
> switch)
> motor governor return spring (about maybe 6" long with loops on each leg
> for screws)
> auto tracker return spring (don't remember dimensions, two loops style as
> above)
> 
> The new owner wants the piano to be complete, and I tend to agree.  I'm
> reminded of the grown men in China that have little boy voices, when they
> are retired from active service to the throne, they're handed a glass jar
> containing the rest of their bodies.  Sorry it's been a long day.
> 
> Lar
> 
> 
>                                     Larry Fisher RPT
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