<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> <H1><BR><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3>>>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 <BR>didn't get wider exposure until several years later, when Pianotek <BR>took over distribution. So that seals it - Bushmaster was first.<BR><BR>Israel Stein</FONT><BR></FONT></H1> <H1><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3>In the early 1980's I attended a piano tool "swap meet" at Sid Stone's shop in San Leandro, CA.  There I found part of a brass tool, about the size of my thumb.  It looked pretty much like the smaller, wooden one I had gotten in a box of tools from an old, retiring piano tech in 1979.  So I bought the brass one for 25cents, took it  home and cobbled up the rest of the parts from the local hardware store--miniature bushmaster.  Some time later I found one made out of aluminum, about two inches high and one inch wide.</FONT></FONT></H1> <H1><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3>Diane</FONT><BR><BR></H1></FONT></body> </html>