[Trombone-l] Speaking of lubricants

[Wayne Dyess]

Odd, Carole.  I happened to have been around when electricity was  
discovered, and I don't remember any of this.

Are you SURE?

Dang.


On Jun 3, 2008, at 7:54 AM, Carole Nowicke wrote:

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


Wayne Dyess
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