My first piano was a 1927 player piano. I didn't have the slightest clue what I was doing. My step dad had gotten it from somewhere in Mississippi and brought it to California. One day I got curious to see if I could make it work, little knowing that I was about to change my life. I pulled it out from the wall and proceeded to disassemble the thing. Within hours I had reduced the machine into hundreds of parts and soon realized that I was out of my league. Living in Southern California at the time I was in driving distance of Pacific Piano Supply which I found in the Yellow Pages. Ol' Don Morton proceeded to sell me all the supplies I would need, the two Reblitz books, and a heap of pneumatic cloth and tubing. It took me three months but I got it playing again! I even restrung it!! I became inspired and bought another old player piano, a 1921 Waltham. This instrument was in far worse shape but I bought it anyway so that I could learn by doing "everything". As time went on and I worked on more pianos I started to understand more about what I was doing. I even rebuilt a 1929 Tangley circus calliope. An apprenticeship followed when I was receiving my undergraduate degree and then I went through the Western Iowa Tech program. Here I am!! Rob Goodale, RPT
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