[pianotech] A little case damage

[Ron Nossaman]

On 5/6/2012 5:58 PM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote:
> My mover called and asked if I would interested in a piano that fell off
> a shelf, and sustained a "little case damage". After looking at it, I
> passed. But what is interesting, is that a chunk of "wood": came off
> either the cheek block or the arm. This is what these pianos are now
> made of. Nothing more than pressed cardboard.
> Wim

I made a new key bed for a Baldwin console long ago that was made of 
this stuff, or something very like it. Junk. That pianoid, however, was 
right side up. <G>
Ron N