<HTML>In a message dated 12/14/02 11:43:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, tune4u@earthlink.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Richard Moody challenged "So show me a solid wooden spoon."</BLOCKQUOTE> I can't, but I had an old Steinway upright (cut down, with a mirror) some 25 years ago, that had wooden spoons mortised into the wippen end.  Solid?  Well, not veneered/laminated, but with a hole in the center for the flange screw to pass through.  The piano has since disappeared from my records, so I can't give you any more data than that. Bill Maxim, RPT Maxim Piano Service Columbia, SC wmaxim@aol.com (for personal reply) </HTML>