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It all started with a player piano roll.
Finding a box that would fit about 7 rolls that we no longer need.
We have a piano. It is a spinet, and had a player, not the old cool kind, but a modern mechanical marvel that rarely worked. Now, I am not complaining. We obtained this piano for the cost of moving it (paid piano movers). A woman Carl worked for said she had purchased it several years earlier for her niece. But the niece had indicated she was not interested, and she wanted to get rid of it. At the time we had an upright, that we had also obtained for the cost of moving from a co-worker of mine that was also moving. For several years we were a two piano family. But eventually we figured we should let another family have one, so we gave it to a friend with two young girls – for the cost of moving. We kept the spinet.

Carl does not play the piano, but he did know how to play the player. occasionally he would break it out for the kids (who plunk on the piano without the player as well). But the player had not worked for a while. When we recently had the piano tuned, he asked them to repair the player. The tuner looked at the player and said it would be difficult to repair, that the Kimball company had changed the design over and over so there were no standard parts, etc., etc.  Long story short, we don’t have a piano that plays by itself anymore, so we don’t need to few player rolls that we have. Anyone interested??? The piano still plays fine with fingers, and it is tuned!

That started a rifling through of other bits. … like I said, a small cleaning frenzy.

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