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 10-10-06  Piano World has now moved to Alton IL.  Our new location is an old schoolhouse.  The Milton School was an elementary school for decades but when it was replaced with a new school years ago, the building became a glass factory with equipment that goes back to over 100 years ago.  The factory shut down several years ago when the Chinese began copying things and selling them for 10% of the USA price.  There are absolute tons of art glass items still stored in the building.  The glass factory owner and I will put together some sales where glass and pianos will be available once or twice a year. 

Meanwhile the piano shop is going back together and the first two tables are clear, lighted and pegboards are hung with their tools.  Our high tech security and fire alarm system is up and running and the security cameras will be in place shortly.  No it is not a dangerous neighborhood but it is a big place and we need to be able to see who is visiting at the other end of the building.   

The new owner of our previous location now says that building needs $300K of repairs.  I am so glad to be out of there.  I am even more happy that I did not purchase it as was the plan originally.

This has been the most difficult year of my life as a member of my household got out of bed in January and broke his back.  The years of prednisone use had caused osteoporosis at the age of 39 and he went into the hospital in February for back surgery to repair the 3 breaks.  He was recovering well in a nursing home and was even working up to climbing my stairs again when the incompetent nursing home doctor overdosed him on Morphine and his lungs shut down.  He stayed in the hospital ICU for two months and because his lungs simply could not come back from the overdose, he died July 5.  

I refer to Dale who did all my reed organs for the last several years.  He had terminal cancer for 11 years but the addition of glyconutrients to his diet had given him two great years of normal life he would not have had without them.  In fact the doctors were amazed at his last MRI and CAT scans where they saw that every one of the huge tumors had substantially shrunk as his body took over with a functional immune system that could now isolate and remove cancer as well as repair itself.  If you know anyone with cancer or any other life threatening health concern, PLEASE have them visit the wellness secrets link seen above.  Learn how to make their body get back to making and keeping us all in perfect health.  It is clear that even though every doctor for 11 years told Dale he would die of cancer, he did not.  He was a victim of the number one killer of people in the US--the combination of correctly prescribed medication (prednisone) and incorrectly prescribed or administered medication (morphine overdose) or malpractice.

To my customers, I apologize for the delays in getting our projects finished and back home to our customers.  I appreciate your understanding in this very difficult year.  I simply have not been able to get enough done along with trips to the hospital several times a day, extensive three month search for a new location and the last two months of moving to that new location.  Rest assured that I have one priority and that is to get all the projects in the shop finished and performing at optimal level.  I think our new location will allow us to speed up the process and finish projects faster than has been possible in the past.

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8-18-05   Has anyone in the last several years restored a pneumatic player system and been peeved by how much pedaling you must do to play it.  Has anyone been disappointed in how your restored reproducer played after restoration?  I have had an absolute nightmare with the bellows cloth everyone uses right now.  I have determined it is not usable.

 Here is the complete sad story.  Read it and avoid wasting your time and money. 

6-14-05  We have been very busy since our last update.  Many instruments are playing again now.  Many others are underway.  Several new pages are under construction now. 

We had a run on Rolmonica restoration kits.  We now have several made up and they are available for $20.  Just send check MO, or PayPal us with $20 and your request and it goes out within 48 hours in most cases.

GREAT NEWS!!!!!

Our faithful assistant, Dale whose pics you see with the reed organs has some really good news.  His ten year terminal cancer is shrinking and going away.  He almost died several times in the last decade but he never got as bad as he did April 04.  But that month we discovered a nutritional supplement that has turned his life around.  From being in bed 24/7 he is now working a full day whenever he wants.  He no longer needs the walker or cane and can now play the organ pedals again.  The feeling is back in his toes after a tumor pressing on his spine took away feeling from the waist down a few years ago.

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I thought I was healthy as a horse before I started these products but since then I have lost my severe allergies, my daily backaches.  I no longer bruise, it just gets red and goes away in a few days and with no pain.  But most amazing was my hearing discrimination.  I have never had any problem hearing anything.  I could always hear in the 30,000 HZ range but now I hear pipe organ mixtures go into tune at twice the speed I always took tuning them before.  My piano tunings go faster after taking the same time to tune for over thirty years, now.  This is for information only and is not a medical claim for any product.  Learn about glyco nutrition and then tell your doctor all about it,  most of them are unaware of glycobiology because they graduated from med school before 2002.

1-21-04   We have added our Blotter paper and precut blotter paper gaskets for some player systems to our line of player supplies.  Blotter paper

We have added a page about a Baldwin M grand we restored for a customer in Florida.  It can be found on the Shop images page at left.

5-11-03 We have added three sets of pages of pictures all available from the shop images page found at the left hand menu.

1) from my trip to Philadelphia and the Wanamaker's pipe organ.  It is reputed to be the world's largest.  Competing with the Sydney Opera House if its organ is finished now. 

2)  new pages and pics of the Kimball Welte Philharmonic pipe organ I installed and have kept for the last 17 years.   

3)The Knabe Ampico restored in our shop and completed last fall has its final pages completed.  

4-1-03 We have added pages of the restoration of a Duo Art Expression box with its accordian pneumatics and valve box.  These are found on the Technical Tips page.  We have a new shop assistant in training, Brandon.  Our woodworker, carver and Reed organ man, Dale was doing better after his chemo treatments but he is now on Dr. Quack's (my) alternative therapy-- a hyper alkaline calcium treatment.  He is without pain for the first time in several months.

Check out the Ebay sale of the Weber Concert grand at the left under the keyboard.  It sold in 7 days.

1-25-03 What do you do when the piano just won't go up the stairs?

1-1-03 We wish for you and yours the best 2003 you can possibly have.  We have experienced an increase in work in the last couple of months.  Whether that is fear of a future recession or something else, we do not know.  We only know that we are doing all we can to get all jobs to completion as soon as possible and we will continue to do that.  We would prefer to have a waiting list rather than to not have anyone waiting.  If you want us to restore your instrument, please understand that you are not the first to discover us.  We will get to it as quickly as we can, and our customers tell us consistently that their finished instruments were worth the wait.

12-1-02 We have been extremely busy in the last few months.  We have added a list of items below the keyboard at the left.  One of these is a Hall of Shame.  This is for items that make you say, "What were they thinking?" or "Ain't that a shame!"  You can check out my Ebay sales pianos.  Search for Fischer and Milton on Ebay for those player piano listings.  The seller is "pianoworld".  

Pics have been added to the Leather pointers page and there is a new technical tips page on Refacing Ampico/Amphion Valves.

The Wheelock Ampico has gone back home and the final photo has been added to that page under shop images.

I recently found a batch of valve leather that is as good as we used to get when we used vegetable tanned leather twenty years ago.  It is chrome tanned for longevity and it takes 15 minutes for a reed organ reservoir to open using it for flap valves.  I was downright ecstatic to find it.  I went back and bought every skin they had of the stuff.  I have been enjoying doing valves once again.

8-1-02  In the days of a Wall Street bear market people are seriously searching for a safe haven in their investments.  Many folks have used these instruments for that purpose over the last few decades.  In over thirty years of working on these instruments, I have never seen their value go down for anything except condition and we take care of that in our shop.  When I began doing this decades ago I could get a fully restored player piano for under $1,000.00 Today it would be around $15,000.00  In 1970 I passed up top quality art case reproducing pianos for $2,000 that today are valued at near $100,000.00   Some folks invest in homes or land.  Some invest in quality antique collectibles.

7-1-02 We have put up a new page of our last visit to Harvey and Marion Roehl's (pronounced Rail) house and music room.  Harvey is the man who did most to single-handedly bring automatic music back from the edge of obscurity for the last 40 years.  His company, The Vestal Press published all manner of service manuals, catalogs and all available literature about these instruments.  These publications are to be found in most libraries.  Harvey died of liver cancer just a short time after these pictures were taken.  He will be seriously missed.  Find the page under the "Shop Images" on the keyboard at the left of this page.

6-1-02Check out our new old bench copies.  These are for reed organs and player pianos and haven't been built like this for decades.  We have other technician's items that have not been made for decades as well.  Click here

6-1-02 At this time the whole thing is new.  We have tried 5 or 6 times to get a so-called "professional" to put together this website and no one seems to be able to do it.  They simply do not listen to what I want.  So, if I want something done right I have to do it myself.  The time lag is due to my having to learn FrontPage well enough to put this up.

If you think a good technician is expensive, just try a bad one.

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