<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have the 1/32" fiberboard, from Steinway. Well worth just ordering a sheet. Kent Webb mentioned here in Seattle last fall that the factory has 3 thicknesses available. This seems to agree with my observations in the pianos. The stuff in the understring felt is usually 2 or 3 times the thickness of this material. So I want some.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"Fish paper" (thinner), or vulcanized fibre (thicker), looks like what this actually is. Thanks for the moniker. Now I can track some down, hopefully in town...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Doug</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 16, 2007, at 11:55 AM, Jeff Tanner wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 14, 2007, at 5:33 PM, Douglas Wood wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Have any of you figured out where to get the fiberboard that Steinway uses in the understring felts in front of the agraffes? They sell one of the 3 thicknesses that they use, but I haven't been able to persuade them to sell the others. And I haven't come up with the proper name or search criteria.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">??</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Doug Wood</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">School of Music</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">University of Washington</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The fiberboard they use in the understring felts should be part no. 006894. I tried to find an alternate supplier, but no luck. I found something similar at Lowe's, but not the same.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I wasn't aware they used this material in other thicknesses (except in the sostenuto regulating tool).</DIV><DIV>Jeff</DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Jeff Tanner, RPT</DIV><DIV>Piano Technician</DIV><DIV>School of Music</DIV><DIV>University of South Carolina</DIV><DIV>Columbia, SC 29208</DIV><DIV>(803) 777-4392</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>