<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>Very funny, Terry.<br /> The reason is that as I tuned, the thought passed through my mind of "Gee, this thing sounds like a cheap speaker sold out of the trunk of a '70 Mercury in a parking lot!" (in 1978), and then I rememberd that those cardboardish-sounding speakers were in cheap, chipboard cabinets; so checked the construction of the Yammy and, sho' 'nuff, found the same, basic, sucking-up-sound core material. Just go read some historical literature on piano construction from its "Golden Age" of fierce competition (1880-1915) and you'll find manufacturers stating quite bluntly (to each other-not for marketing purposes) that choice of woods, including veneers, <br />was made with the intent of losing as little vibratory energy to heat transduction as possible. (Rosewood, for example, was not just chosen for its looks.)<br /><br
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<td valign="top" style="font:inherit;"><div>Wim, it wasn't tubbiness. It was thubbyness. LOL </div>
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<div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">You're both wrong. The tubbyness came from the hammer flanges with broken loops</font></div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY:arial, helvetica;FONT-SIZE:10pt;">-----Original Message-----<br>From: Terry Farrell <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com</a>><br>To: pianotech <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">pianotech@ptg.org</a>><br>
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<div>Okay, so the little Yamy had a "thubby" sound. What leads you to conclude it was because of the chipboard (more than likely MDF) cabinet core? Personally, I'm quite sure any "thubby" sounds were a direct result of the plastic keytops - anyone knows plastic will never sound like ivory.</div>
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<div>And please allow me to add, briefly, that I had a HORRIBLE experience with flagpoling pins in a Georgia-built Yamaha P-22 upright once that was so bad it made tuning nearly impossible. Caused by extremely tight tuning pins and perhaps the wrong type of steel, in combo. (It also had a chipboard cabinet core, which made it sound "thubby". )<br>
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