The Oliver

[gordon stelter]

   Malleable iron was used for windings because it
provided a different, sometimes preferable tone. But I
think they went dead 15 years later!
     I don't have the can for my Epotek 301, but I
remember they were in Billirica (sp?) Mass.
     Contact Craig Brougher in Independence for your
Missouri player piano questions, or contact the Music
Box Society International, or AMICA for lists of
specialists.
     Thump

     --- "Alan R. Barnard" <mathstar@salemnet.com>
wrote:
> Looked at an old upright in a church social hall
> today. The fallboard name is "The Oliver" and the
> Plate says "Oliver ... Chicago Ill. & Huntington,
> Ind. 
> 
> I tune their chapel piano and they wanted my advice.
> My advice will be ".. .off the nearest cliff" But
> they were really interested in knowing its age.
> Pierce is not clear ... two listings for "Oliver."
> 
> Anyone? The serial number is 21719. Would it be a
> Schaff Bros. (Wurlitzer) serial number? That would
> make it 1905 and it certainly could be that old.
> 
> Base strings are steel or nickel-wound, definitely
> not brass. When was steel used? Might they be
> original or a 60-year-old re-string? Man, talk about
> some dead bass strings, we are talking about
> Zither-Zombies, here (not a bridge problem either). 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Alan Barnard
> Stumped in Salem, MO
> 


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