<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16544" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Mike,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I don't know what color the cord was when the affected Yamaha pianos were new.  I can tell you that on the ones I have repaired the cord is brown.  I just looked at another Yamaha console yesterday and it was built in the U.S. in 1984.  Sure enough, there was one hammer spring that had broken through the cord and all of the cords were brown.  Someone bought the piano, likely unaware of the looming repair bill. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Gary Fluke</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Snohomish, WA</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=IFixPianos@yahoo.com href="mailto:IFixPianos@yahoo.com">Michael Magness</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> Friday, November 02, 2007 6:42 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Bridles</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><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></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>