[CAUT] glue add-on!

[Ron Nossaman]

On 1/15/2011 8:50 PM, James Patrick Draine wrote:
>
> On Jan 14, 2011, at 10:56 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:
>
>> In the factory, there wasn't a glue pot, but rather a trough the
>> length of the stack. When I asked, it was said to be hide glue.
>
> Oh -- information on factory tours! Like the suit proudly telling us
> tubular rails continue to be used in their verticals since the
> beginning (we showed him the wooden rails). The 16 degree angle for
> tuning pins (quoth the supervisor at the E.Rochester Aeolian plant).
> And the guy showing us around the Falcone/Mason&  Hamlin factory
> proudly telling us about the high quality woods being used ". . . and
> all the bridge caps are made of balsa wood!" Boxwood was, I believe,
> what he meant to say (then again he might not have known the
> difference). Sometimes we just mis-speak. Fortunately these gems were
> tossed off quite a while ago.


Well, yea, but everything I've seen in Steinways, gluing Steinway 
hammers to Steinway shanks does indeed seem to be hide glue. Got better 
information?
Ron N