> From: "Joseph Garrett" <joegarrett at earthlink.net> > Date: February 3, 2011 6:37:17 PM EST > > Jurgen, > That is partially true. They did use it that way, but not very often, because it was an expensive/difficult to get wood. The clue there is Pear Wood's a very stable wood. Hence it's most often use.<G> ???? BTW, what a lot think is Pear Wood, could be any other Fruit Wood or even something like Boxwood. They all look similar.<G> > Joe OK, Joe, I'll go with the upper bearing (for uprights with open faced pinblocks and wooden upper bearings). I've seen some that are very fine-grained but don't look like maple (another common choice). Joe DeFazio Pittsburgh P.S. - before you said uprights, I was going to go with the grand damper guide rail.... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110203/a8ecee15/attachment.htm>
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