<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT COLOR="#000040" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Verdana" LANG="0"><I>In a message dated 6/27/2002 11:42:54 AM Pacific Standard Time, macman@pathfinder.dnsalias.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Subj:<B>Durham's Rock Hard Soundboard Putty </B><BR>
Date:6/27/2002 11:42:54 AM Pacific Standard Time<BR>
From:<A HREF="mailto:macman@pathfinder.dnsalias.com">macman@pathfinder.dnsalias.com</A></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000040" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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Tyler</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000040" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000040" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></I> Durhams rock hard putty is a wonderful dent and gap filler for smoothing out small imperfections on the inner rim glue joint before gluing in a new board etc. It sands well but it has no structural strength or glue strength and can be quite brittle.<BR>
I can hear those cut corners from here<BR>
>>>>>>>>>>>Dale Erwin>>>>>>>>>>>>>.<BR>
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I was looking at a 5'-ish 1928 Chickering grand, rebuilt, the other <BR>
day. New hammers, strings, keytops refinished, et cetera and so on. <BR>
Plays very nicely. I like it.<BR>
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The bridges have very small repaired cracks, seemingly well-done, and <BR>
so that settles whether or not it is a new soundboard... <BR>
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Looking at the soundboard from the underside, it appears that the <BR>
rebuilder decided it was in good enough condition to not even require <BR>
repair. There are a few (around 4) narrow cracks here and there, no <BR>
sign of any shimming or anything similar.<BR>
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Returning to the top of the piano, it seems that the cracks have been <BR>
filled in from the top with some sort of filler putty... What is <BR>
this? I've never heard recommendation for any procedure like this <BR>
before. Wouldn't putting putty in the cracks just encourage them to <BR>
get bigger but not smaller, or does the putty somehow "glue" the <BR>
cracked pieces together?<BR>
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The putty in the soundboard seems to smack of corners cut, which goes <BR>
against the rest of the piano's good workmanship.<BR>
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Anybody know anything about doing this?<BR>
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-Tyler Smith</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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