Robert Goodale wrote: > Forget about water presure, disintegrating hide glue, or anything else > that would have occured within a week, let alone crashing and tumbling > across a ball room as the ship turned vertical. The fact of the matter > is, no kind of wood could possibly have survived for 85 years in salt > water. No keys, let alone anything else besides the plate would have a > chance of existing at this point. Revision... I take it back. After reviewing a couple of Titanic web pages, it does appear that SOME wood, and even a few leather objects such as boots have been found. Very little seems to be much in tact, however. It is still probably doubtful to me, however, that a piano would remain quite so intact, particularly when it comes to disolvable hide glue joints holding rim laminations together. Just a thought. Rob Goodale, RPT
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