Schaeffer Upright Player Rebuild
from customer from St. Charles, MO
12/05

The following pictures are before

The player action in this piano is pretty

pictures taken for reference

rare. It is a Price & Teeple Player Action

Bottom section - Exhausters & Reservoirs (Front)


Bottom section - Exhausters & Reservoirs (Back)

Bottom Section - Stack Cutout Box disassembled

Bottom Section - Exhauster & Reservoir covers taken off exposing flap valves


Top section, back side


Top section, back side - with top half tilted forward
(special feature of the Price & Teeple Player Action)









First of 3 rows of pneumatics: numbered and push-up fingers taken off


Numbered pneumatics unscrewed off of support bars


Rows 2 & 3 of pneumatics: numbered, push-up fingers taken off, and unscrewed off of support bars
(88 pneumatics * 2 screws per pneumatic)


Support bars off leaving mounting frame and valve chest









Fully disassembled air motor and governor

Fully disassembled spool box

























7 steps to recovering the note pneumatics
(88 times)

Tracker pneumatic ready for recovering

Tracker pneumatic recovered ready for mounting

Note pneumatics recovered ready for mounting (88)

Air motor pneumatics sealed and ready for recovering

Air motor pneumatics recovered ready for mounting

Cleaned and wire brushed air motor guide wires

Air motor fully assembled ready for mounting




Air motor mounted to motor governor pneumatic





All the valve parts assembled ready for actual reassembly

Top of valve assembled

Bottom of valve assembled

All valve parts needed to reassemble valves


(88) Rebuilt and assembled valves

Starting to reassemble valves in valve chest