<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Susan Kline wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid5.0.0.25.2.20050712213119.026a5350@mail.peak.org">At 06:31 PM 7/12/2005 -0300, you wrote: <blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite="">My spares were all brown, and rotted as well.</blockquote> I really don't understand why Yamaha, with such high quality so many other places, uses that cotton which turns to brown fluffy lint after not very long. </blockquote> It's especially a problem with Yamahas in damp Japan. They finally decided to fix the problem around the year 2000 and quietly started using a synthetic cord. Tom Cole </body> </html>