<html> At 05:35 AM 12/15/2002 -0500, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite cite>In a message dated 12/14/02 11:43:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, tune4u@earthlink.net writes: <blockquote type=cite cite>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</blockquote> I have an 1866 S&S upright in the back of the shop with this type action. I've been not working on it for about twelve years now.</html>