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face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>No idea. It's just one more of those things
that keeps being invented all over again from time to time.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
[mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Paul T
Williams<BR><B>Sent:</B> January 04, 2008 5:51 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Pianotech
List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Interesting note on bushing
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<DIV></DIV><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Hi Israel,</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT
face=sans-serif size=2>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.</FONT>
<BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Hey, Del, Do you know how old the
two caul system is?</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Paul</FONT>
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<TD width="40%"><FONT face=sans-serif size=1><B>Israel Stein
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<P><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>01/03/2008 10:41 PM</FONT>
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<TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><FONT size=3>At
06:20 PM 1/3/2008, Paul T Williams wrote:</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>Hello Paul,</FONT><FONT size=3> <BR> </FONT><FONT face=Verdana
size=2><BR>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.</FONT><FONT size=3> <BR> </FONT><FONT
face=Verdana size=2><BR>Bill </FONT><BR><FONT size=3><BR>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. <BR><BR>Israel Stein </FONT>
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