[pianotech] your father's butt

[Tom Driscoll]

Ron,
 I worked for a Baldwin dealer in Dallas in 79'-80' which I think was right 
around the transition from this stuff to the corfam. The only thing I 
remember  (It was the 70's after all) was that the tech support at Baldwin , 
for whom if it was available then we would have had on speed dial , called 
it "Butt Skin " As you descibe it initially makes a black tenacious dust 
that looks like black mold.
I join your noble if not quixotic quest.  What is that stuff ?
Tom Driscoll
Subject: [pianotech] your father's butt


> Ok, now that I have your attention, I have a question. It's a
> question I ask every couple of years or so on these lists, and
> no one's come up with an answer yet. It's up on the wheel
> again, and with the number of recovering Baldwin employees
> extant, I keep hoping someone has a name to put on this stuff.
> It's a faux butt and catcher leather found in Baldwin
> verticals prior to Corfam. It's the sticky black stuff, that
> degenerates into stickier black dust until it wears to the
> backing, beyond which it generates a weird sort of web. Maybe
> it's "Cob"? Does anyone, please, know anything about this evil
> stuph? Yea, I know it needs replaced, but I'd really like an ID.
>
> Thanks, maybe
> Ron N
>