Plastic action parts

[Elwood Doss, Jr.]

Hey, the action collapsed on itself long ago!  I cringe when I see plastic
action parts in a piano.  It's a disaster!  Gimme wood parts any day!
Joy!
Elwood

Elwood Doss, Jr., RPT
Piano Technician/Technical Director
Department of Music
145 Fine Arts Building
University of Tennessee at Martin
Martin, TN  38238
731-881-1852
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phillip Ford" <fordpiano@earthlink.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 11:57 AM
Subject: Plastic action parts


> Another interesting patent:
>
> Patent 1,650,095 to J. Rydberg for Supreme Player Action Corp. on November
> 22, 1927.
>
> The 'construction of the members of the action from a cellulose ester
> plastic or similar cellulose plastic as such material is not affected by
> the atmospheric or temperature changes to which the members of the action
> are ordinarily subjected and is readily moldable and workable into any
> desired shape so that substantially the entire piano action can be
produced
> from material of this character'.
>
> An all plastic action in 1927?  Has anyone seen a piano this old with
> plastic action parts?
>
> Phil Ford
>
>
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