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❤ I still love this video!

Very good to know :) thank you for this

Glad to see you back at it. Your videos are always appreciated.

Nice! I have one that was rough. Bought another parts machine on Ebay, re-tubed, fixed "fan" hub that was cracked, works surprisingly well.

Hi, what is the unit of measurement?

Very helpful - beautifully explained and demonstrated, complete with lighting, clear video and audio. Bravo!

It's been 13 years, did you ever find out what the name of the woven string was?

John, I have Autopiano valves with the screw on outer valves. They were restored in the past and they only consist of the fibre disk, leather washer for threading on top and a leather facing glued to the bottom. The problem is they don'e wobble at all and I can't find any photos of the original valves. Any suggestions?

John, your work bench looks like mine. Stuff everywhere. Been like that all my life.

This is like a webcam at 1FPS...

Thank you so much for taking the time to make this basic tutorial. It's exactly what I needed to understand in order to fix my player piano. The play/rewind lever wasn't working and I scrolled the internet for about 3 hours looking for exactly this explanation (specifically 2:53- the armature). And I was able to fix it! I'm so pleased!! Thank you again.

I must have missed it, but what setting do you have the iron set to?

Who recorded this and how old is that video?

Thanks John!!

Thank you for the very helpful video.

Thanks, John. I haven’t worked on an Ampico in years, but those switches are SO IMPORTANT! Good looking manufacturing; it should give many years of service. Thank you for all you do to “ keeping the music rolling”!

Hello John … I’m having a problem with my simplex player piano that I was hoping you would know the answer to. Recently I redid the fabric on all the bellows and Cleaned up the interior. Now the piano plays fine BUT as soon as I pedal; 4 of the keys (first was only 2) go down and stay down during the entire roll. The odd thing is that since the repair (8 month ago) only 2 keys would stay down, a month after that, they would all work perfect and now after 8 month 4 keys stay down

what is the tool called to adjust the spring. my restored upright, which i bought restored, the damper springs put too much tension and cause the keys to be very heavy.

I have 3 ampico A model, 2 are 33K model numbers and 1 is a 14K. I also have a completely different version that has exposed bellows and the piano was one with an action like none I have ever seen, not unplayable but no piano player would ever be able to play it. I wounded if you had ever seen anything like it.

Bought a building and the owner said I get the player piano. Most would think great I got another 100 year old antique that needs work...well, I figured out the pump and hose in a millisecond. Then I couldnt figure out why the roll kept going backwards without sound and within seconds of this video you helped me locate the small wood cover for all the switches LMAO! Got rocking with When i'm 64. Hit the reverse at the end of the roll where the scales play wildly to alert you to stop or change rolls. Man. I'm loving life. Antique building with a working player paino - A Stark looks like it was made in 1903.

Thanks John, Working on Paul Freiling's Wood whistle Calliope, and this helps me with the striker key bellows reconstruction.

Thanks for video, reworking the striker bellows on dads calliope Paul Freilings Wood Whistle Calliope

Thanks much for this video. I am restoring my Wurlitzer Rj12 player action.

"Bellows" is proper for both the singular and plural form of the word. "Bellow" is a verb meaning to speak loudly.

But anyway, thanks for the video; it was still interesting. Now let's see you get a refrigeration installer vacuum pump (reciprocating or scroll type) and demonstrate for us why that might not work to run one of these pianos.

It doesn't have turbines; a turbine is a set of blades that are driven by the medium; not which drive the medium. The wheel inside that cannibalized vacuum cleaner is an impeller type of fan; not a turbine or set of them.

No matter what, still piece-of-crap noisier, including whinier, as a cannibalized vacuum cleaner, than just using a motorized version of the bellows that the pedals would run. Just stick that in there instead! Every time I want to hear one of these videos of an electric nickelodeon or standard electropneumatic player piano playing, but then I discover that it's being run by a vacuum cleaner instead of power bellows, I get sickened by it and turn it off!

WERE ANY ANIMALS ABUSED MAKING THIS VIDEO ???

John i think you have a lot more experience with electronics that you think and your years in navy electronics gave you a good foundation also thank you for serving. Funny thing i once bought a complete set of the navy electronics courses from an ex-navy person those red and green cover electronics manuals and I went through them one by one I don't remember how many but there where a lot of them and those and subscriptions to radio electronics gave me a good background.

Very interesting point, thanks for info John

This is excellent and clear! I was able to walk through this video while working on my tracker and had a functional tracker again afterwards. Thank you for sharing.

I'm amazed at how fast the actions are on the percussions, especially the bass drum!

Thanks you saved me and my mate a phone call. Legend! Edit: Never mind!

the professional nicholodian hack makers do just this actually

Interesting so stupidly simple the problem maybe tricky to find initially. I was intrigued by piezo used as a stack pressure monitor, and in same pneumatic player piano a fet H bridge design to drive roll motor , touch controls in spool box too , no schematic but obvious to anyone with basic electronics knowledge. Similar is a pneumatic lock and cancel valve which is virtually astable mode or flip flop memory in electronics.

Would you advise against using a heat gun?

It's always good to see a video from you John, keep going, you are one of the few resources we have left for this sort of stuff.

Good to see you back at it again. Your videos are always interesting.

John, i need to rebuild the vacuum pump on Universal piano Company, player piano model P2 serial number is 6100. Can you help me ? Please... We inherited piano from my father-in-law and it has set for 50 years and his house and my mother-in-law used to put a wheel through it once in awhile but then it stopped playing. My wife had it shipped from California to Missouri last month.

Simple ideas always the best thanks for that idea

I use these for connecting rods on Whirligigs

I just found a little lodeon piano and it works but doesn't play any music. I want to fix it any tips?

Great info. Thanks for proving that it works inline!

I have disconnected the pneumatics on the air motor and clamped them closed for a couple of days. It usually improoves the problem, but not always completely.

Hi John do you know how to fix keys playing when they are not supposed to

How did you get the rod for it

I bought a set of hammers from Ragland Piano. As luck would have it they screwed up and bored the hammers oversize by .018 inches. My hammer shanks are.216 the hammers are all .234. Do you now sell a set of adaptor sleeves so I can install these new hammers? I could have bought a previously owned set of hammers from E-bay for 1/10th the cost and they would have fit perfectly

That Honkytonk setup puts rivets in front of the hammers. I had that setup on my Aeolian Player. I never used it or liked it as it will destroy the hammers all for the sake of making the piano sound tinny and out of tune. But Aeolian manufacturers had the brains of putting a lever out of the way that didn't interfere with the kneeboard removal

Great video John. I frequently use my air compressor to blow off accumulation on my sand paper.

Thanks John, just getting started on this mechanism. Glad i watched your video before destroying these wood pieces. Interesting that you don't clean the residual wood but rather use it as a guide when installing the repaired bellows.