Brent and List: I agree with Brent's comment about the excellence of Varnish for soundboard protection. When I was at Baldwin, we always used Varnish on the Grands, but used Lacquer on the verticals mostly for speed and efficiency. In the Grand factory we always did the boards last thing in the afternoon so that there wouldn't be dust specks settling on the Varnish. When I was on a company trip to Germany in '73 I toured a local rebuild shop in Hamburg. They used polyester resin coating for Grand boards. Jim Coleman, Sr.
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