Trivia

[Avery Todd]

Patrick,

That's the "Baldwin's Escaine stuff" that I mentioned. :-)

Avery

At 06:51 PM 10/10/01 -0400, you wrote:
>What about that bad cardboard like stuff that Baldwin used on their hammer
>butts a few years back?  I remember when I first apprenticed, I replaced  a
>lot of those.  The company used to pay $50 for a tuner to replace them.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Avery Todd <avery@ev1.net>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 5:03 PM
>Subject: Trivia
>
>
> > List,
> >
> > While sitting replacing a set of Yamaha upright butt flanges, with my mind
> > wandering :-), it occurred to me that most of the major piano
>manufacturers
> > have had at least "one" thing that is indelibly associated with them:
>Yamaha's
> > butt flange cords, Steinway's Teflon, Baldwin's Escaine stuff, the plastic
> > elbows/flanges thing.
> >
> > I was just wondering. Can anyone come up with some others that I'm sure
> > most manufacturers would just as soon forget? :-)
> >
> > Avery