<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: Your(butt flange) choice, please</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> On 5/25/01 2:26 PM, "Wimblees@AOL.COM" <W= imblees@AOL.COM> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE>In a message dated 5= /25/01 8:25:00 AM Central Daylight Time, GBOLES@AOL.COM writes: It's hard to go wrong with a Yamaha P-22 studio piano. I'm sorry, but Yamaha pianos fail after 10 years at the hammer butt. Too mu= ch stress for the little brass plate and screws.  That's been my observat= ion. Willem </BLOCKQUOTE>Willem, I’ve heard this comment many times, however I have yet to experience = this.   About 1/2 of UW inventory is Yamaha  and I don’= t find the but plate to be a problem.  We do regularly tighten screws a= nd check regulation  -  Yamaha service bond. This happens approxim= ately every 2 years.  No doubt this does not happen in many  venue= s.       I grant there is stress on the butt plate.  Is= there more stress in the plate than in the plateless flanges?   M= y hunch is that most techs feel the design is the problem.  I have to w= onder if service isn’t the problem.  How much vertical regulation= is offered in ‘normal’ service?       Hear those flanges clicking?    Woul= d you like fries with your clicks???     Joel --  Joel A. Jones Senior Piano Technician 1501 Humanities Building 455 North Park Street Madison, WI  53706 FAX 608 - 262 - 8876 608 - 263 - 1887 http://uwpianos.music.wisc.edu/ </BODY> </HTML>