Yellow vertical key fronts

[Tom Driscoll]

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Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: Yellow vertical key fronts


>
> In a message dated 01/08/01 9:23:58 PM, cedel@supernet.com writes:
>
> << I assumed the keytops had been replaced without replacing the fronts.
> Right or wrong?
>  >>
>
> Wrong Clyde. :-)
>  For a long spell, and for some unknown reason, Yamaha keys had fronts
that
> would turn "yellow". This applied to their domestic production and to
their
> export production as well. Yamaha seems to have long since solved this
> problem but to see an older Yamaha with "yellow" fronts is not in the
least
> unusual.
> Jim Bryant (FL)
     Jim,
        Interesting,  I  thought it was a "gray" thing !
                       Tom Driscoll