Editing Player piano (section)

=== 1950–present ===
[[Image:Player piano keyboard.jpg|thumb|upright|A player piano performing]]

In the early 1950s, player pianos and other instruments of the 1920s and earlier became collectable. An enthusiast, Frank Holland, who had collected player pianos while working in Canada, returned to England and held meetings of like-minded enthusiasts at his house in London. In 1959 this gathering was formalized as 'The Player Piano Group', and in the early 1960s Holland founded the British Piano Museum (now the [[Musical Museum, Brentford|Musical Museum]]) in Brentford.

In America, another collector, Harvey Roehl, published a book called ''Player Piano Treasury'' in 1961. This sold in large numbers and was followed by books published by Roehl's Vestal Press on how to rebuild and restore the instruments. Other societies were formed worldwide to preserve and study all aspects of mechanical music, among them the Musical Box Society International (MBSI) and the [[Automatic Musical Instruments Collector's Association]] (AMICA) in the USA.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.amica.org/|title=A M I C A |website=amica.org |access-date=July 28, 2022}}</ref> 

The revival of interest in player pianos in the 1960s led to renewed production. Aeolian revived the Pianola, this time in a small spinet piano suited to post-war housing, and other manufacturers followed. QRS offered a traditional player piano in its Story and Clark piano. Early enthusiasts could often get by with limited patching and repairs, although original 1920s instruments could still be found in working order.{{Citation needed|date=September 2007}} Complete rebuilding of old instruments to original condition became possible.