<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1141" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm presuming this was an old = Yamaha?  I ran across an old one with foam rubber used for the backrail.  I was = like paste/putty.  I installed a new strip of good backrail cloth and voila...the keys were still perfectly level.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>David I.</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Piannaman@aol.com href="mailto:Piannaman@aol.com">Piannaman@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 08, 2003 = 7:33 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Foam Rubber on Rest = Rail?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>List, = <BR><BR>I was sitting on the floor(the tables were too small to fit an action) of a = Chinese restaurant filling the hammers of an MX 80 Yamaha 42" console when I = noticed something I had never seen or noticed before:  the hammer rest = rail "felt" was actually foam rubber.  Well, the shanks do land = softly...:-) It made me wonder about the quality of materials in the rest of the = piano.   <BR><BR>Didn't have time to do a full inspection as I was = hustling to get the piano back together in a fairly dark environment before the = restaurant opened(made it with 5 minutes to spare).  Like most Yamahas that = I've tuned, it had very few strings with false beats and the pins were = consistent.  But how long before it starts to self-destruct?  Especially = since it is a Disklavier and gets played at least 8 hours a day... = <BR><BR>Dave Stahl</FONT> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>