At 13:24 -0400 28/5/10, Richard Ucci wrote: >Brass ? Isn't nickle plated the norm? >Found on Boston grand NickEL plated is fine if it's nickEL-plated brass as it used to be in the good old days. For many years now, in Europe at least, balance pins and bat pins are steel with a pretty thin plating of nickEL which, once it wears off exposes the steel to rust. I'd rather have plain brass than that. But I can't understand why they continue to produce the plated steel rubbish. I guess wartime restrictions led to the change and they stuck with it unthinkingly, as with so many other penny-pinching things in today's pianos. JD
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