Meltdown (:)}}

[Jon Page]

Ed,
Next year at this time move the piano into a
heated area and watch the effects.

Jon Page

At 08:47 AM 9/28/98 EDT, you wrote:
<snip> I got to test this recently.  After totally disassembling a 1914
Steinway
>O, there was nothing but the laminated rim left, and the bent side was badly
>burned.  I placed this shell outside in the weather, so that it would
>magically unfold as the hide glue softened, and I would be left with a stack
>of maple!!  Easy as pie. 
>    Well,  it has been soaked by rains, yard sprinklers etc. for several
>weeks, and guess what?  Nothing has come loose but some edge veneer.   The
>ends have not moved apart, and the laminations show no signs of loosening.  
>     Perhaps pianos are more washable than I thought.   I'll let the list
know
>how long it takes for a case to melt. 
>REgards, 
>Ed Foote
>
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