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<DIV> JD</DIV>
<DIV> The generally held rumor is that the wood was treated with a tallow
solution of some kind & ooops, it didn't work, But then
this, is, after all, the incredible good fortune for American Techs. You
see ....it keeps us employed. Yes & then there is Teflon & Teflon
impregnations. I do not believe its' ample as all/most American pianos I know of
employed the use of maple especially in flanges</DIV>
<DIV> I looove this company. grin. Hope you are well</DIV>
<DIV> Dale</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><BR>I
must bow to your greater experience. By chance I have just been <BR>sent
a set of shanks and hammers from an old New York Steinway S. <BR>Having
received the new flanged shanks today from Renner I matched <BR>them up to the
old ones to prepare for the job and realised that <BR>there was some verdigris
on all the patterns I have been sent. I <BR>don't know how long the
piano has been in England. It is very rare <BR>to see this in European
pianos. Do you think it has to do with the <BR>maple flanges and some
chemical in the wood that causes the action? <BR>I can't think of any European
piano that has used maple flanges. <BR>Most of them use hornbeam and
Herrburger and a few others used <BR>service wood (sorbus domestica) for the
flanges, even though <BR>Herrburger used maple for the other parts in some
actions.<BR><BR>JD<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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