[Trombone-l] Speaking of lubricants

[Carole Nowicke]

Not SOM, but earlier.  Someone asked me what might have been used on 
slides in the early 19th century--or even earlier--what about sackbut 
lube?

I know by mid-19th century every company had their own lubricant to 
hustle--I've seen bottles of "Electric Oil" --an interesting concept, 
but everything "electric" was better once this new-fangled electricity 
became available.  Oil bottles wouldn't tend to be kept once emptied, 
so the proprietary containers would not tend to survive with the 
instruments.



Carole Nowicke
cnowicke at indiana.edu