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
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