pin driving fluid

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Dan, John and all,
There has been no misspelling.
The following entry from The New Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
rosin :a hard brittle resin obtained from esp. pine trees and used in
varnishes
and on violin bows.


Heating the resin, obtained from the tree, allows one to change the
brittleness so that it may be used in many applications.
Bass viol and violin rosin are not the same. Bass rosin for an example is
much tackier than violin rosin, allowing greater grip of the bow on the
string as the bow is pulled across the string.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Dpshans@AOL.COM>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2000 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: pin driving fluid


> John,
>
>    As an old pitcher with too many innings under my belt  my experience
has
> been as follows:  The sticky, gooey stuff is called pine-tar.  It's the
ugly
> mess that batters use on their bats, and it sticks to anything it comes in
> contact with.  It would have been real fun if they'd have let us use it to
> pitch.
>
>      Whether it's spelled properly or not, pitchers use a rosin bag.  It's
a
> chalky powder, and in fact is rather tacky.  It has some "stick" to it,
> unlike a pure powder.  My preference would have been for a bucket of
pine-tar
> on the mound.  Oh, the nasty curves I could have tossed.....
>
> In search of an ice bucket and whirlpool,
>
> Dan Dannenfelser
> Sacramento, CA
>
>
>
>