Hi Israel, It looks to me like the two caul method is much older than the mid 80's. That's just when Bill learned about it from Del. Hey, Del, Do you know how old the two caul system is? Paul Israel Stein <custos3 at comcast.net> Sent by: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org 01/03/2008 10:41 PM Please respond to Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org> To pianotech at ptg.org cc Subject Interesting note on bushing cauls 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080104/0ad99357/attachment.html
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