Fossil Identification

[Jon Page]

Adding insult to injury, I picked up an Acrosonic which the movers broke the
legs off.
The corners of the cardboard keybed were broken diagonally but epoxied
well,and a
birch plywood reinforcement next to the keyframe added extra support for the
bolt.
Then I set it up, started to tune it, . . .  what is that clicking. First, I
thought it was a piece
of glue on the rest felt. Lo and behold!  I can not tell you what a pleasure
it was to replace
the butt leather.
Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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At 07:41 AM 1/25/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Greetings List,
>
>	With all this discussion of stone-related piano construction
>techniques, I hope some of the enlightened members of the list can
>help me with some identification of another type of geological piano
>part, namely the substance used by the Baldwin Co. in their wonderful
>petrified butt leathers. I've put together a tech. column on removal
>& replacement for my newsletter, and I would like to find out just
>what the @#$% those things were made of so I can sound knowledgeable
>on the subject. All of the Baldwin Tech Service folk are returning
>from NAMM and are unavailable until next week, so I throw the
>question open to everyone.
>
>Humourous responses encouraged, any responses welcome,
>
>Regards,
>Rob Kiddell
>R.P.T., P.T.G.
>C.A.P.T. Student
>Edmonton, Canada
>http://www.planet.eon.net/~atonal/atonal.html
>
>

Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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