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Larry Dighera wrote:

My father rebuilt player pianos for decades

Then he must have heard of Carty Piano who rose from humble beginnings
in the early '60s to probability become the largest player piano
restorer on the west coast. Ah, it brings back fond memories of
rabbit-skin glue in a thermal jacketed pot, disassembling a thousand
wooden parts, ironing-off old pneumatic cloth, re-tubing the tracker
bar, vacuuming out a century's worth of dust, regulating the action
and leveling the keyboard.... Dick Carty is still alive and well in
Ventura, California. Would I recognize the name of your father's
business?

Maybe not, since we were (are) on the east coast, and you didn't
make the connection between Noel and Noel's Piano Supply.

You ironed the cloth off? ugh. Lightly burn it and it comes off
easily. Sure, there are bellows that can't be easily burned, but
ironing-off the old cloth is sooooo slow.

--
Bob Noel
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