Foam Rubber on Rest Rail?

[Farrell]

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Two questions:

1) Why is foam rubber necessarily lower quality? Maybe all the other =
pianos that use felt have yet to upgrade?

2) Pray tell, what on earth did you fill the hammers with?               =
 ..............sorry - couldn't resist!
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Terry Farrell

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From: <Piannaman@aol.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 10:33 AM
Subject: Foam Rubber on Rest Rail?


> List,
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> I was sitting on the floor(the tables were too small to fit an action) =
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> Chinese restaurant filling the hammers of an MX 80 Yamaha 42" console =
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> noticed something I had never seen or noticed before:  the hammer rest =
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> "felt" was actually foam rubber.  Well, the shanks do land =
softly...:-) It=20
> made me wonder about the quality of materials in the rest of the =
piano. =20
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> Didn't have time to do a full inspection as I was hustling to get the =
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> back together in a fairly dark environment before the restaurant =
opened(made=20
> it with 5 minutes to spare).  Like most Yamahas that I've tuned, it =
had very=20
> few strings with false beats and the pins were consistent.  But how =
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> before it starts to self-destruct?  Especially since it is a =
Disklavier and=20
> gets played at least 8 hours a day...
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> Dave Stahl
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