Below ;   YouTube video's taken after the restoration

     Canary Singing Bird in rectangular cage                                       By;  
         Bontems or Phalibois

Email to owner:
The bellows in this automata is quite large compared to some others and has been a problem for everyone who has previously worked on it. 
I did receive the zephyr skin last month and completed the rebuild but the skin was so thin it quickly split and leaked and this was the oly thickness they have any more., I believe it would be good for the small snuff box singing birds with the very tiny bellows.
Next was to try a very thin  pneumatic cloth I use in the finger pneumatics on player pianos and while this worked great the little valves that are inside the double pump and storage pneumatic were simply too small which caused the pumps to be more then the spring motor could handle, 
 I next ordered a very thin pouch leather, also from Germany and have replaced the small valves that someone had installed in the last 50 years for the original style as used in most of the large cages.
Now the new pumps are working as they should,

 A close up of the star of  our project, "Dickey Bird" , My mother always had a canary (1940-1980's) and it was always called Dickey Bird :-))
                                Before getting a few new feathers.
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