Tim, Tim, Tim! In a message dated 2/16/97 4:42:55 AM, you wrote: <<Fred Drasche presented a seminar in Chicago and mentioned using wood grain alcohol (burbon) on verdigris. >> As a pruad Suthner, student of substances alcohol (in a past life), former resident of the Great State of Kaintucky, and staaunce supporter of the Union as it stands; I Sir do dearly hope that what you are speaking of is the foul, tainted mixture that ruins mens minds and destroys happy homes and not the sweet elixir that warms a mans heart and allows convivial conversation and commerce among even the most brutish. While I hesitate to bring up the recent past unpleasantness, I must point out to you Sir that Fred Drasche, as respected and admired for all of his work as he is, is a Yankee Sir!! Everyone with a respectable rearing up knows that to use a mellow, smooooth, Sour Mash Bourbon for the crude purposes of piano work would be a sacrilege and I must stronglllly protest SIR! I do so hope that you will gather thee at thy local Apothecary and obtain some straight Wood Grain Alcohol or use that obnoxious mixture known as 'GIN'. The sweet hallowed mixture of Bourbon, even in its crudest forms, contains a level of salts and sugars that will eventually cause their own sets of problems. >From the Sutherrn lexicon VERDIGRIS- Foul growth developed by an unstable "Yankee Apothercarian for culturing in mechanisms of fine use. Widely used in the piano industry by devious "Yankee engineers to provide income for their granchildren when they become piano technicians. Jim Bryant (FL)
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