----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Hufford" <hufford1@airmail.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: August 28, 2002 9:55 AM Subject: Re: Foundry Castings > What is the Currier Strataphonic String Panel? The name alone seems > sufficiently impressive that it should have been continued in production. > Regards, Robin Hufford I quote: "The Strataphonic String Panel is a structural support system that utilizes modern technology and advances piano construction into the 21st Century. The use of similar support systems in the aircraft, aerospace and construction industries verifies its strength and reliability. "The SSP is a precision engineered structure fashioned by bonding special alloy steel plates to selected core materials. Computer machined steel is sandwich or strata constructed in layers to withstand greater tension and deliver many times the yield strength of conventional studios." The 'selected core materials' were mostly MDF with conventional pinblock stock used up where the pinblock would normally be. The panel was made in one large unit with those areas cut out that didn't belong in a piano 'structural support system.' I have one of the original brochures. I'll see what I can do about scanning it into some form that can be e.mailed if anyone is all that interested. Del
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