OT Re: Steinway sostenuto bar/Del

[Ron Nossaman]

>And Aircraft "Carpenter?" Now that does go back a bit.
>
>One of the reasons our pacific northwest's old-growth forests have been
>stripped nearly bare was to supply choice Sitka spruce for fighter airplane
>and glider construction during WWII. (It's only one of the reasons--we've
>thought of many others since....)
>
>Del

More than once, when I was in England, I helped a guy from the fabric shop 
re-cover, lace, and dope ailerons, elevators, and rudders for our squadron 
of Gooney Birds (C-47, or DC-3). All aluminum by then, incidentally.

Ron N