walterjk

As a hobbyist woodworker for over 50 years I have read, tried, made, finished and refinished many projects. In the last 30+ years I have been a collector and restorer of antique automatically played musical instruments, that include music boxes both disk and cylinder, acoustic phonographs, reproducing and coin operated pianos and orchestrions and any type of musical instrument that is played by a roll, disk, book or record. You can see an instrument at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmk9cRp5Z4w ,that I and a partner restored from what certainly would have been the dump. This restoration took us about one half the Saturdays over a 14 year period and involved skills in cabinet work, veneering, gilding, finishing, staining plus skill in the restoration of pianos and organs. You can see and hear this instrument as it plays as it might have IN 1910, when it was made, for the patrons of the Dance Hall it was reputed too come from, in the Coney Island Area of New York City.
The book on furniture restoration will certainly be a reference that I will refer to often during work of restoring those instruments still needing attention in my collection.