On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:59:57 -0500, Bob Noel
wrote in
:

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

I was only an amateur who restored a couple of pianos, so I wasn't so
intimately involved in the business. But I'll bet Dick would
recognize the name.

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.

It wasn't too slow if the iron was hot. The glue readily re-melted,
and the old pneumatic cloth slid right off. Didn't burning the cloth
cause a lot of noxious fumes and char scaring of the wood? You didn't
use a torch to remove the pneumatic bellows from the stack did you;
you used an iron right?

Today, of course, the popularity of mechanical pianos is in rapid
decline in favor of smaller, less expensive electronic keyboards, but
I still thrill at the sounds of a real grand piano lilting through the
house even if it is being played by a PianoDisc system:
http://www.pianodisc.com/