Last week I tuned a Yamaha G2 which had the most friendly string rendering I have run into yet. I tune other G2's. They are not too bad, but definitely not as easy as this one was. Anyway, as I was tuning, particularly in most of the tenor section, I was nosing about, trying to figure out why it was so easy. Termination angles seemed well worked except the last three notes of the tenor which had the usual increased termination angles. Then I noticed that the "ski-slope" felt seemed thick. This didn't make sense, so poked around at the end of the felt and saw that the felt was pretty thin, and seemed to be wrapping around a a white plastic substance. Not being able to take a biopsy of said material, my guess is that it is a UHMW plastic. Anybody have any knowledge of what they were putting inside that felt wrapping? I meant to get the serial# (damn)but slipped my mind in the heat of battle. I would bet early 90's vintage, but could be wrong. Jim Ialeggio -- Jim Ialeggio jim at grandpianosolutions.com 978 425-9026 Shirley Center, MA
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