Del, Thanks for the vote of confidence. Without waxing entirely too obnoxious, I've seen way too many actions butchered in your choice of methods, often with work _very_ nicely done by well-intentioned technicians, trying to overcome this mass issue by attacking (literally) everything else. Last time I bothered to measure, a Renner S&S whip was roughly 3.5-5 gms heavier than it's more poorly executed, but made from maple NY counterpart. Others know those numbers and things a great deal better than I do, but this simply isn't rocket science, it's either good basic piano work, or it's not. In other news: Del, please put me on the list for a catalog of your new line of piano products and services. I expect something of at least the quality of the Fazioli presentations. You know, four colour separations, 45# varnished stock, rotogravuere, etc. While I am sure that there is a veritable multitude of possibilities for this kind of thing, the only (modest) proposal I have is for precision pre-cut, tumbled, polished, gold-plated centerpins. For the truly discriminating technician, these could be used with the surgical steel, rhodium-plated, Swiss made, double-compound lever center pin plier and matching cutting and burnishing tools (for that _very_ special instrument). Given the cost of what passes for tools these days (where _is_ Hale when we need them? Old Hale, that is.), the centerpins should go for about $0.50 per, and the pliers a cool grand. Good Morning to All! (Yes, the caffeine is starting to kick in...) Best. Horace At 08:43 AM 5/7/1998 -0700, you wrote: > > >Horace Greeley wrote: > >> David, >> >> Probably just about everyone who has used any of these >> parts has this problem, potentially. >> >> For all of it's highly touted superiority, hornbeam, as used >> in (most) piano parts these days, has some (to me, anyway) >> serious drawbacks, the two worst offendors being mass >> and porosity. > >I'm relieved to find that there is at least one other human out there who does not share >Renner's high -- at least in public -- opinion of hornbeam. There will be more in time. >For all of its faults, give me maple any day. > >-- ddf > > > > Horace Greeley, CNA, MCP, RPT Systems Analyst/Engineer Controller's Office Stanford University email: hgreeley@leland.stanford.edu voice mail: 650.725.9062 fax: 650.725.8014
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