I believe you mean to refer to the action maker Pratt-Read, not Whitney? Of course, some of those Kimball-made Whitney spinets sported some of that spring-and-spoon destructive felt. Can't recall which felt maker was the likely perpetrator (although they were probably responding to a buyer's lament "Can't you provide us with with something a little less expensive?").Patrick Draine On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Tom Servinsky <tompiano at bellsouth.net>wrote: > My hunch is that the same felt supplier was supplying Pratt Whitney and > other makers at the time. The worst case that I encountered was on a very > nice Sohmer console. So there goes the inexpensive piano theory. > Peter Comstock, the grandson of the Comstock family who owned Pratt Whitney > lived very close to me and attested that this was a problem at one point. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090219/f2f02a72/attachment-0001.html>
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