available player piano advice.

[Alan Forsyth]

Hello once again Gordon;

Yes indeed, that I know. I have myself a player of 1926 vintage with 
original unrestored pneumatics which still manages to waddle along albeit 
with a lopsided limp. Gulbransen appears to be one of the very few American 
brands that were exported as I know of many of them throughout the world 
even as far as Australia. My Gully has been shipped twice across the oceans 
and has resided on 3 continents. I did notice in Reblitz's book on Player 
Restoration that Gulbransen used the 80 note stack so that it could play the 
reproducing rolls, although he thinks that this was a smokescreen to save 
costs.

One term puzzles me; the term "wind motor". Is it pronounced as in "blowing 
in the wind" (which would be a contradiction in terms, as there is no wind 
in a pneumatic system) or is it as in "wind up the clock" ?
Here we actually refer to them as roll motors.

Regards
Alan Forsyth


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: available player piano advice.


> Yeah. But a lot of those cheapo Gulbransens have
> really stood up over time, and sound and play far
> better than more pricey pianos.
>     Thump
>
>
> --- Alan Forsyth <alanforsyth@fortune4.fsnet.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Gordon Stelter wrote;
>>
>> "If there are 9 holes to the inch it is a full 88
>> note system. ....."
>>
>> Except in the case of a Gulbransen where they
>> decided that a few notes less could count as a full
>> system. Stingy, miserable scrooges they were!
>>
>> AF
>
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