Interesting note on bushing cauls

[Paul T Williams]

Kinda like the wheel....
pw



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No idea. It's just one more of those things that keeps being invented all 
over again from time to time.
 
Del

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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 



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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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