Trivia

[Patrick Greene]

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