pinblocks and materials

Nichols nicho@zianet.com
Mon, 09 Feb 2004 17:30:55 -0700


At 01:42 PM 2/9/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Mark, I too am interested in the replacement of
>traditional piano materials with new ones. But, in the
>past, manufacturers who did this were usually aiming
>for CHEAP, not enhanced performance. So when their
>substitutions caused preoblems a backlash against all
>innovative material substitution ensued. And that's
>where we are today, basically.
>      Thump

Really?
Wow.
Best not let on about aluminum rails, plastic jacks, Eskaine, 
urea-formaldehyde, epoxy, high-molecular-weight resin, or polyester, eh? 
(to name a few)
<G>

Guy Nichols, RPT

"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."
         -Former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower


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