A rubbing is not a pattern

[John Delacour]

At 18:47 05/10/01 -0400, Newton Hunt wrote:

> > But what is a rubbing?
>
>Commonly called a string pattern.


Not in a stringmaking shop it ain't.  People send a rubbing or patterns or 
both.  The patterns are the old strings or strings to be copied. Some 
people call the rubbing a 'template', which it ain't either, but if they 
started calling rubbings patterns, noone would know where they were.

JD