There is another product you could have considered had not the player unit been removed is the PowerRoll. http://www.powerroll.com/ This is made by Larry Broadmore and has electronic valves which interface with a pneumatic player system. It can either be temporarily mounted on the tracker bar or installed in-line between the tracker bar and player valves. This way midi files operate your pneumatic player. When I get around to rebuilding an Ampico upright in the corner of the shop, this will be added in-line. QRS has Pianomation which someone on the MMD has mentioned retrofitting into an a former player with better playing results than the under-the-key installation. An amusing ditty is to be found here: http://www.qrsmusic.com/music/Rolls/palm_beach_pokey.htm Regards, Jon Page At 11:00 PM 03/08/2001 -0800, you wrote: >One thing I forgot to mention is that I like the idea >of fitting acoustic pianos with electronic/digital >piano components. You get the new technology AND keep >the "real" piano. I could see that it might be >expensive. When I restore my Ricca & Son player piano >(player was taken out before I was born), I would like >to put an electronic player in it (forget off the top >of my head which brands I would consider, but it would >be like in the Yamahas, or I THINK Wurlitzer/Baldwin >had a player system.) and parts from an electronic >keybaord, like a Yamaha PSR-9000. Not to mention a PC >in the bottom, with a flat-panel display where the old >roll player part went. (I would not be using a roll >player system. It would be CD-RW probably or whatever >is in the modern player systems.
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