In a message dated 7/18/2007 11:30:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time, A440A at aol.com writes: Seems like Varnish was the finish of choice up until around WW II. Who knows when they started putting lacquer in hammers? We do refinishing, and start seeing lacquer in the mid twenties. I can't remember offhand when varnish replaced shellac, but I think it was in the late 1890's or early '90's. Don't quote me on that. Bob Davis ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070718/a5ac21a9/attachment.html
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