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The plastic upper shell has been textured, making it look a little heftier and studier than comparable units.
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And yet, the Titanium interior is pretty artful, a sinuous composition in soft-touch materials, alloy-like painted trim, textured fabric, that piano-black plastic assuming your Steinway is made by Mattel and lots of electrons.
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Instead, it's coated in smooth soft-touch black plastic on the back and a textured version of the stuff on its sides.
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Interestingly enough, we discovered that there was not one but two models being showcased: the first, seen in the video below, has a textured back and is flanked by soft-touch plastic at both ends.
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As far as comfort is concerned, chew on this -- out of the box, the Rat 9's completely coated in soft-touch plastic, and if you don't like that, you can swap for a pair of textured rubber palm and pinky grips instead.
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