<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'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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<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>> My mover called and asked if I would interested in a piano that fell off<BR>> a shelf, and sustained a "little case damage". After looking at it, I<BR>> passed. But what is interesting, is that a chunk of "wood": came off<BR>> either the cheek block or the arm. This is what these pianos are now<BR>> made of. Nothing more than pressed cardboard.<BR>> 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. <G><BR>Ron N<BR></td>
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