----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman@cox.net> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:48 AM I consider players to be the epitome of the mechanical marvel - a pre-electronic source of magic which, like anything else, should be understood reasonably well in their original form before arbitrarily deviating from that original form. Ron N Yes, indeed consider that the player was the original mechanical version of the programmable computer; it had an operating system and software. My Gulbransen (1926) is still going in it's original form except for the regulator bellows which has multiple layers of latex daubed over it. AF
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