<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>     "This stuff" also sucks up sound almost as badly as if it were rubber. I tuned one of those Yammy P-22&#39;s made in Georgia  a while ago, and besides the arm-breaking tuning pin tightness ( they flagpoled pathetically ) a thought ran through my mind of "There is something about the tone of this thing that is like cheap speakers sold from the trunk of a car in a parking lot." Thubby, in a  word. Then I saw the black-painted chipboard on an exposed edge (also the core material on such cheap speakers) and knew why. <br />     Quality piano builders of yore, when competition was stiff, knew that every molecule of construction affected tone in some way, and acted accordingly. <br /><br />Thumpe</div></td></tr></table>            <div id="_origMsg_">
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                            Ron Nossaman &lt;rnossaman@cox.net&gt;;                            <br>
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                            Re: [pianotech] A little case damage                            <br>
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                            Mon, May 7, 2012 2:59:34 PM                            <br>
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                                        <td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">On 5/6/2012 5:58 PM, <a ymailto="mailto:tnrwim@aol.com" href="javascript:return">tnrwim@aol.com</a> wrote:<BR>&gt; My mover called and asked if I would interested in a piano that fell off<BR>&gt; a shelf, and sustained a "little case damage". After looking at it, I<BR>&gt; passed. But what is interesting, is that a chunk of "wood": came off<BR>&gt; either the cheek block or the arm. This is what these pianos are now<BR>&gt; made of. Nothing more than pressed cardboard.<BR>&gt; Wim<BR><BR>I made a new key bed for a Baldwin console long ago that was made of this stuff, or something very like it. Junk. That pianoid, however, was right side up. &lt;G&gt;<BR>Ron N<BR></td>
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