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Other uses for Pinard stethoscopes

Just after I arrived at work this morning I had a phone call from California from a man wanting to buy a Pinard Stethoscope. He told me that he was a movie actor and that he was involved in programs for the History Channel. He had recently been working on a western, and was required by the script to check that a man who had been hanged was really dead. A Pinard stethoscope had been produced to perform this task!

Since he sometimes provided his own props, he felt it would be worthwhile buying his own Pinard for future use. He said that the small Pinard we stocked ( a lovely dark coloured wooden model) was exactly the same as the one he had used for the movie.

We’ll be shipping his Pinard off today and he will have it in 4 - 5 days. We certainly receive some interesting calls around here!

Posted by andrea at January 29, 2004 08:50 AM

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