Meant to say, agree with you about this Richard. As I recall, Alistair Laurence made some pianos with fabric panels on the top door, back in the 1980s. Best regards, David. www.davidboyce.co.uk On 30/10/2012 18:00, pianotech-request at ptg.org wrote: > One aspect I do appreciate is the peirced top door with cloth on > the reverse. Why on earth piano manufacturers abandoned this > principle on upright pianos amazes me. Upright pianos are > traditionally shoved against a wall, have heavy solid panels on the > front and the tone is vastly inhibited as a result. I did see a > new Steingraeber upright with a very modern take on this idea however. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20121031/5c491da6/attachment.htm>
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