At 16:43 -0600 12/2/09, Michael Magness wrote: >On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote: >>I used yellow poplar in this one. The original had both top plates >>and buttons, and needed new buttons. To stiffen the keys... > >I know my pics were lousy but I'm certain you can see the difference >between the clean neat not over the top job you did and the less >than stellar job performed on the piano in question. What puzzles me is that you are able to tell the difference in this case between a proper job and a botch, and yet, in the case of the totally non-stellar eyes on the bass strings you brought up in the last thread, after 40 years of experience with properly made eyes you were unable to see that these were quite unacceptable in every possible way. JD
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