player piano repair class

[Wayne M. Williams]

Dear Debbie:
I did talk to my client, who said it hadn't worked in years. By the way, Pierce's Atlas says the Pianola was manufactured in the 1960's and they said they bought it in the 1950's. How is that possible(according to the serial numbers)? Anyway, they were a big help showing me around the instrument. Now all I need to do is read the the REblitz player piano book and tell them how much it will cost them to fix it!

Regrads,
Wayne Williams
Schroon Lake, NY
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: pianolady50 at peoplepc.com 
  To: Pianotech List 
  Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 3:50 PM
  Subject: Re: player piano repair class


  Herb Lindhal's class will be a good one as has been said.  Ferd Pointer and I taught a class, years ago, when the Institute was in Orlando, FL.  Problem with repairs, in this day and age, is that usually it requires much more than just "a repair" on older players.  Player's from the 60's, 70's, and 80's you often can get away with a repair.  Most all can be tuned with relatively little disturbance of the player mechanism.  However, if the piano needs repair, and/or a string breaks while tuning, you've got to know your way around.  I'm a player tech.  My number one instruction is....
  ALWAYS have the customer show you how, or how well, or not, the player works BEFORE you touch anything, even just to tune!

  Debbie L.
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Tvak at aol.com 
    To: pianotech at ptg.org 
    Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 2:13 PM
    Subject: player piano repair class


    List

    My timing's off on this, but one class I've always looked for and never found at the National Institute is Basic Player Piano Repair.  I probably get 5 or 6 calls a year asking if I can repair the player mechanism on their piano and I'm afraid to touch the things for fear I'll break them.  

    It would be great to see a class that just covered some of the more basic repairs you would most likely encounter, and some instruction on how to safely remove the darn things in order to tune them more easily.  

    Has such a class ever been scheduled in the past?  Or is there one in the works for the future, at any of the upcoming regional conventions, perhaps?  

    Or is there a book available on the subject?  I'm not interested in becoming the "go to" guy on players in my area, but I would like to know something about the more common repairs I might encounter.

    Tom Sivak
    Chicago
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