Interesting note on bushing cauls

[Israel Stein]

At 06:20 PM 1/3/2008, Paul T Williams wrote:
>Hello Paul,
>
>I had nothing to do with devising the two caul method. I learned it 
>back in the mid 1980's from Del Fandrich, who had learned it from 
>another tech in the Portland area some years previously. Later I 
>heard form a British technician who had used a similar method many 
>years earlier at Steinway London. So it seems there is nothing new 
>under the sun. My wife and I are just the ones who actively taught 
>the method, starting in 1988, and soon after made the cauls 
>commercially available.
>
>Bill

Aha! The Bushmaster was being marketed on the East Coast in 1986-87 
by Peter Grey - who claims to have invented it (he patented it).  It 
didn't get wider exposure until several years later, when Pianotek 
took over distribution. So that seals it - Bushmaster was first.

Israel Stein
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