Grand knuckle material

Horace Greeley hgreeley@leland.Stanford.EDU
Tue, 25 Nov 1997 08:02:06 -0800


Anne,

No, that's Vibram (among other substances).

The use of Corfam in shoes got a hefty boost
from the military, which thought it had found
a way to have the spit shine look without 
the spit, so to speak.

As shoe material, it works almost as well as
it does in pianos...

Horace



At 08:23 AM 11/25/97 -0500, you wrote:
>At 10:58 PM 11/24/97 -0600, you wrote:
>
>>Corfam was the name of the substance used in some Baldwin models for
>>awhile.  It hardened in many of the pianos over time.
>>
>
>   Isn't that what they put on the bottoms of shoes?  
>Anne Beetem
>Harpsichords & Historic Pianos
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Horace Greeley

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Controller's Office
Stanford University

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