<br><br> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Delacour</b> <<a href="mailto:JD@pianomaker.co.uk">JD@pianomaker.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">At 19:11 -0700 1/11/07, you wrote:<br><br>>All the time...they will supply the cord...;-]   I'd add, that 25+ <br>>years is pretty good service for any part...<br><br>What?!! Are you talking about cars or pianos?  I expect to find a few<br>broken cord loops on a 100 year old piano if it has suffered a lot of<br>damp (which will ultimately rot the silk) but if they had had <br>polyester cord in those days I'd expect them to last for 200 years.<br><br>JD<br><br></blockquote></div> <div><br>I have 4 Yamaha P-22's some of the first out of the Thomaston plant, all in the same school district, would they be included? I haven't had the problem(yet), several U-1's in another school from the 90's. Various aged P-22's scattered around. </div> <div> </div> <div>Not to mention about 100 or more Yamaha consoles sold in this area, that I service and probably a few hundred more serviced by others.</div> <div>Anybody have a guess on time frame of when the bad was used and when it stopped being used?</div> <div> </div> <div>Mike<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>The way some people find fault, you'd think there was some kind of reward.<br>Michael Magness<br>Magness Piano Service<br>608-786-4404<br><a href="http://www.IFixPianos.com">www.IFixPianos.com </a><br>email <a href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com">mike@ifixpianos.com</a> </div>