<HTML>In a message dated 8/7/03= 10:38:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time, draine@comcast.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-= LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">By "the same stuff" if you = mean it's a form of silica, yeah. But exactly the same same? -- I doubt it but why don't you contact Taylor (or read p. 40 of the recent Journal) and ask him for more details. *Assuming* they're identical is like the parent who *assumes* Granny's last-tuned-50-years-ago upright is the perfect vehicle for little Janey's musical aspirations ("And Granny told me she never paid more than $12 for a tuning").</BLOCKQUOTE> Patrick, Just got the journal(a bit late, I'd say...)  and I'll check it out= .  Thanks for the info.  I guess my choice of words--assume makes = an ass out of u and me--could have been a bit wiser.  "I'm guessing" mi= ght have been a bit more appropriate. Granny's pianos are sometimes not so bad.  I have my gramma's 1919 = M and H AA(new soundboard, keyboard, action, etc., etc.), and it will probab= ly outlive my 3 year old lad. Dave Stahl</HTML>