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Out of curiosity, doesn’t silicone harden and crack within a couple years?

For removing ivory keytops without burning them, you can use a damp rag between the iron and the keytop. (Sorry if this advise has already been made.)

I used to work for the Wicks Organ Company. The APP company had a building at the Wicks factory. Wicks built parts and provided APP shipping so I have a quasi list of the APP instruments built in Highland, their dates of shipment, and where they were shipped to. I am slways interested in placing this information together with instruments. Did this one have serial numbers or theatre info written in it anywhere?

Thank you for playing the Nickelodeon at the end!

Nate, Great meeting you today! Dan Hunt

How much does one of tem cost

Hello, this is a non related question but, I’ve seen that you have worked on a 70’s aeolian pianola. I just got one, and someone mentioned that the rubber tracker bar tubing was lined with asbestos. Is this true? If so, do you know how to keep it safe, without replacing any tubing? I’m an amateur with player pianos, and I don’t want to throw the thing away. Thanks! Ps. I love your videos, keep it up!

What is the song at 0:49?

A chimney over a bath tub?!!! What a house!

A superfund site 😂

Looking forward to episodes to come!

Cool. I was there at the MBSI annual meeting you played for and really enjoyed it. 🙂

I binge watched this whole series today. I am a bit bleary eyed, but I really loved it. Such interesting and complex work so well carried out--and with humor. And it really brings a smile to see this fine old machine brought back to life instead of going to a landfill or burn pile as so many thousands like it have.Good job!!!!

Maestro ❤

You know, I've always wondered how fast an air motor can go, but I've just found a simplex piano player that has a spring wound gear motor.............. No I'm not gonna destroy it lol.

AMAZING! one week is one of my favourite films ever. so cool to see it like this.

In a few weeks I will receive an Aeolian player piano directly from the anti-woodworm treatment. It comes from my wife's family and they hasn't played it or done any maintenance to it for possibly close to 40 years. After watching your videos I decided to completely restore it. I have manual skills and tools, although not as professional as yours, but I have worked with modeling, models and DIY all my life, so I have been encouraged. I will need help regarding materials, specific glues and so on. I hope you can guide me a little on these topics when I need it, since I will go step by step. Delighted to have found this tutorial and I hope to get to the end by completely restoring our Aeolian. Thank you very much, congratulations for the quality of your videos and warm greetings from Spain.

I can’t thank you enough for your videos.

Buster Keaton did everything they do in Looney Tunes, but for real.

Yup, really opened a can of worms there. Love the puns. Love the work your doing and the lengths you go to to explain how it all works.

PLEASE make some more of these.

So that bit of paper/tape in the middle is like an early 20th century midi file?

What material did you use to replace the webbing straps that pull on the pneumatics?

Regarding copyrighted player rolls, there is a cutoff age for copyright after which the work becomes public domain. Look up "mickey mouse law" or "Copyright Term Extension Act", as it's properly called. In the US the age is 95 years. Other countries have different and much shorter durations. NB: check with a lawyer, I am an honest man, not a lawyer! 😊

I conduit...😂🤣

In this case (where the motor is moving the pneumatics), changing the material won’t be as much of an issue, but in most cases keep in mind that a thicker material doesn’t respond as well and can hamper performance. This is why original pneumatics used rubber cloth because it’s thin and flexible. If you need to replace rubber cloth with leather in the future, try to find leather of as close to the original thickness as possible.

Rubber cloth of multiple kinds is available from Organ supply. Still very widely used. Also, future restorers will thank you if you use hide or fish glue (what would have been used originally) instead of white glue for pneumatics and leather.

The point about materials in a restoration is a moot one. There are historically accurate preservations and there are functional refurbishments. Both have their place. What's more important is payingt attention to not destroy irreplaceable parts of the object's provenance, putting stuff back the way it was and not different where possible, using non-degrading, well documented materials and keep records of the composition and what solvents and techniques will undo your work. If you want to do the next guy who works on this in another hundred years a huge favor, write up all you did and how you did it, print it up on acid-free paper together with material data sheets if you have them, and put them in a pouch in the back of the piano.

Where do you get your string replicated? Is it john trefz still, or someone else?

Can never really get over how incredibly complex these machines are. We tried to rebuild a piano ONCE, and in the chaos of my gramma's death, we failed even that fairly "simple" task. Thank you so much for sharing these videos, they're some of my favorites to watch.

I’ve said it before: This is such an awesome project. Riveting!

Subscribed. 👍🏻

Fascinating complexity....

You impress me with your passion and skills.

Hello, I would like to ask. Are the wooden pieces of the xylophone just between those metal strips, or is something between them, like a piece of rubber or leather?

Great Video Nate You Do Good Work😊

Great job Nate!

I wish I had more time to watch more of your videos. I wish I had time to come see your shop! This makes me wanna get back into my baby grand project. I love covering pneumatics and pouches. Great video!

I'm always impressed by your creativity. Using egg cartons to keep parts organized is very clever. The templates you create to make new parts are brilliant.

As always excellent restoration of some very clever mechanisms

This has to be my most favorite video of all times!

Where do you get these great pianos and nickelodeons?

Beautiful work you’ve done to that xylophone! I recently made part 1 of me attempting to fix my player piano, and seeing you do this is very interesting!

Love you made new valve covers. Hope you used blotter paper rings when you installed them. Coinola used them as a gasket on the fiber valve covers.

13:35 "xylophone...glockenspiel...I can't marimba." This has to be some of your best work to date. Keep it up. And the piano is coming along nicely, also.

Great job on each one of those little reiterating pneumatics! Those are no easy task, especially with how complicated some of them can get. I've found that Coinola's inside pallet valve method works a lot better than some of the simpler ones that just have a hole that opens in the back whenever the pneumatic closes. That's going to be a very, very nice piano when it's finished!

Your work is unconditionally precisionally (is that a word?) done.

I am totally amazed and impressed by your work. Rather than try to cobb something, you are redoing this totally the right way!!!!!! I have seen so many horrible cobb jobs and poor band aids over the years on work. This is not you!!!!

I was really exited about this episode! And I always wondered how repeating mechanisms like that worked. Thanks for sharing!