[CAUT] your father's butt

Zeno Wood zeno.wood at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 06:08:48 MST 2009


I've seen it on a Kawai upright, it's not just Baldwin.

-Zeno Wood

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote:

> 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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