[pianotech] your father's butt

[Ken & Pat Gerler]

Ditto!!

Ken Gerler

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Driscoll" <tomtuner at verizon.net>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 6:30 AM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] your father's butt


> 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
>>
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