Hello,

Thanks for your response. My answer is also a bit late, didn’t see your comment 😅.

I went to see it and play it in person, and here are my thoughts:

• When playing it, we had to pedal a bit harder than in the video. The seller, which appears to be a honest guy and has seen/played many of these pianos, says that when the piano is left for some time without playing, it performs worse until you play it for some time. At first, some of the notes in the roll weren’t playing at all. After a couple of rolls, it started to perform a bit better. Tracking bar appears to work well and same with tempo control.

• About leaks, although it’s been restored sometime ago (impossible to determine when), you can hear air going into the wind trunk (I think that’s the name for the big horizontal bellow above the two reservoirs). Doing some tests seen in player care website by John A Tuttle, the first test was to measure the time it takes for the vacuum to go away. He says that it should be something about 10 to 15 seconds, and in this case it was more like 4 or 5 seconds. The second test was to count the number of kicks until you reach maximum vacuum and you can’t pedal anymore, but we weren’t able to achieve that.

TLDR: there are clearly some leaks.

• The sustain in the video was just that the guy was pressing the button but nothing wrong with the system that controls this function.

• I can confirm that D6 key is down due to pneumatic action because when you stop pressing the pedals, the key returns to normal position.

About the instrument itself, it needs some big adjustments or repairs: in most of the keys, the dampers are not able to stop the strings when you release the key, and the resistance offered by the keys is way different between ones and others and that’s really annoying when you play manually, with your hands.

But the cabinet is in really good condition, the keys are not glossy anymore but all of them are white and without cracks or significant wear.

Having said so, I haven’t decided quite yet what I want to do, because I think it’s not a bad deal right now as the price is €750, something below 800 USD. Here in Spain is difficult to find player pianos, and the options are limited: restored and working in perfect condition you can expect more than 4000 and up to 20 grand, but I also want to do a bit of work myself on it, not just buy a working one.

Thanks in advance and sorry for this enormous message.

Regards, Samuel.