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<div><SPAN contentEditable=false style="DISPLAY: inline-block"></SPAN>Cy is right. The Kawai parts don't become peanut brittle.</div>
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<div>But all comparisons of plastic aside, many, if not most Kawai grands of that era were using mostly wood parts. The first plastic parts used were flanges, and then jacks, I believe.</div>
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<div>Don Mannino is the person that can answer that question the best.</div>
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<div style="CLEAR: both">Dave Stahl, RPT<br>
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Dave Stahl Piano Service<br>
650-224-3560<br>
dstahlpiano@sbcglobal.net<br>
<A href="http://dstahlpiano.net/">http://dstahlpiano.net/</A><br>
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<div style="CLEAR: both">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: cy@shusterpiano.com<br>
To: pianotech@ptg.org<br>
Sent: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 9:35 PM<br>
Subject: Re: Kawai plastic parts<br>
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<div><FONT size=2>There's NO comparison between the plastic used in spinets in the 50's, and that used fifteen years later. For more info:</FONT></div>
<div><FONT size=2><A href="http://www.kawaius.com/main_links/abs/abs_problem.html" target=_blank>http://www.kawaius.com/main_links/abs/abs_problem.html</A></FONT></div>
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<div><FONT size=2>--Cy--</FONT></div>
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<div style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=pghpianotuning@yahoo.com href="mailto:pghpianotuning@yahoo.com">MICHAEL MEZHINSKY</A> </div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">'Pianotech List'</A> </div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 09, 2007 9:47 PM</div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Kawai plastic parts</div>
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<div>Do 1965 Kawai grand pianos have action with plastic parts? If so, can the action plastic parts have the same bad condition that American made plastic parts do in spinets?</div>
<div>Thank you</div>
<div>Michael Mezhinsky RPT<br>
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