<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:ns0="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PostalCode"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style>  </head> <body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Hi Rob,<o:p></o:p> Not wanting to be argumentative, but they probably said that about plastic.  Only time will tell...and I hope you are correct.  Thanks for the reply.  I still like wood parts...!<o:p></o:p> Joy!<o:p></o:p> Elwood<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Elwood Doss</st1:PersonName>, Jr., M.M.E., RPT<o:p></o:p> Piano Technician/Technical Director<o:p></o:p> Department of Music<o:p></o:p> 145 Fine Arts Building<o:p></o:p> The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Tennessee</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> at Martin<o:p></o:p> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Martin</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">TN</st1:State>  <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">38238</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><o:p></o:p> 731/881-1852<o:p></o:p> FAX: 731/881-7415<o:p></o:p> HOME: 731/587-5700<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: Rob & Helen Goodale [mailto:rrg@unlv.nevada.edu] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 7:50 PM To: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Pianotech List</st1:PersonName> Subject: Re: <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Boston</st1:place></st1:City> Pianos<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <div> Carbon composite action parts are NOT plastic, i.e. the nasty crumbly crap used on 1950s spinet elbows.  It is a completely different product.  More then likely the stuff will still be intact when archeologists dig up samples 3,000 years from now.  This is the stuff they use to make golf clubs and military aircraft wings.  It's not going anywhere.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div>  <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Rob Goodale, RPT<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Las Vegas</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">NV</st1:State></st1:place><o:p></o:p> </div> <div>  <o:p></o:p> </div> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt; margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> <div> <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Boston</st1:place></st1:City> Pianos<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <o:p> </o:p> </div> <a name="_MailEndCompose">I’m sure the carbon composite parts have gone through extensive R & D that will show they will last longer than traditional wood parts, but I wonder if in 50 years the carbon composite parts will crumble in the pianos and some poor piano technician will have to tell a piano owner that the piano will have to have all the CC action parts replaced.  Wood parts have proven their durability and I’m partial to them.  They may not be as stable as CC parts but they’ve proven their worth.  As far as I know the only major brand of vertical piano that truly uses all wood parts is the Baldwin Studio Upright.  The </a><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Boston</st1:place></st1:City> uses some aluminum in rails, etc.<o:p></o:p> Joy!<o:p></o:p> Elwood<o:p></o:p> </blockquote> </div> </body> </html>