Our player piano restorations will include rebuilding of all pumps, valves, locks & cancels, pneumatics, tubing, etc. Both components are integral to a properly sounding and functioning player piano. Second, a player piano consists of two separate machines – the piano, and the player mechanisms that are used to play the piano.Once we determine that the player was designed poorly we will suggest the modifications needed to make the piano and player more usable. Some players, especially the very early or even pre (tester) models were released from the factory in semi playing condition, and in most cases, there is no way to tell until the restoration process is underway. In most cases, it will not perform as described above. it can only be adjusted to a certain extent. If the piano is not restored, in original or poor condition, specifically the action, hammers, strings, etc. First, a player piano restoration is only going to play and sound as good as the piano can be played manually.There are two critical points we would like to make clear and forthcoming regarding player pianos… The Aeolian Company was one of the largest and most successful player piano manufacturers in America. It takes between 3 and 14 days to adjust the system correctly. The art of restoring reproducing and regular player pianos is in the final adjustments of the system if we did not do our job correctly then we will never be able to create that realism that each and every player should have. Most reproducers are simply rebuilt or adjusted incorrectly, a reproducer should be able to really sound like the artist is in your living room with whispering lows and growling highs, it should be the best representation of the pianist work, next to the artist coming into your home that is. We use neoprene tubing because it has stood the test of time since its creation in the early 1950’s, it seems that neoprene is the only product that is better than the original clay or lead tubing.
AEOLIAN PLAYER PIANO MODELS SKIN
We use old fashioned split hide leather for gaskets, rubberized pneumatic cloth to replace original rubberized cloth, Zephyr Skin, Kid Skin valve leather, and superior neoprene rubber tubing. We use only the highest quality products available, we believe that the best products, in any case, produce the best final result.
Our restorations are guaranteed for ten years, and as long as you enjoy your piano weekly it should last a lifetime. We have perfected the art of restoring reproducers and standard/regular players. Knabe & Mason Hamlin Ampico Model’s A/B, Hamburg Steinway Weltes, and all automatic musical instruments like Wurlitzer CX and Seeburg Model L. What sets us apart from everyone else is that we restore between 15-35 players a year, from the primary Aeolian standard 88 note pumper, Steinway Duo-Art’s, Wm. We have come across some real quality restorations. The player, it most likely will not do exactly what it was intended to do. The firm declared bankruptcy in 1985.Fully Restored 1927 Steinway Duo-Art, Style OR, Midi E-valve Virtual Roll With this merger, the Aeolian and American Piano Company names joined to become the Aeolian-American Company. In 1932, the company merged with the American Piano Company, joining a long list of manufacturers to be included under the American Piano Company name (including Chickering, Mason & Hamilin, Stoud, Vose, and a host of others). In 1916 the Aeolian Company started making Vocalion phonographs and in 1917 Vocalian Records. They marketed products throughout the world and set up companies in Britain and Australia. This increased their control of the industry with piano player factories in New York City, Garwood, Meriden and the Steck and Weber piano factories in Gotha, Germany and Hayes, England. By the early 20 th Century the company was one the world’s leading manufacturers of organs and player pianos.īy 1903, the company had acquired several organ and piano companies, including George Steck & Co., Weber Piano Co., and others. It became the Aeolian Company in 1895 to manufacturer the very popular player piano. as a result of an alliance between the Mechanical Orguinette Company of New York, and the Automatic Music Paper Company of Boston to manufacture mechanical self-playing organs. The Aeolian Company was founded by William Tremaine on the 26 July 1887 in Meriden, Connecticut, as the Aeolian Organ & Music Co.
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