[pianotech] Bridle tape ENDS

[David Boyce]

JD, it's good to know that you are not beyond immediate reform!

I don't know if "expeinsive" was a Freudian slip. It may have been a 
mere typographical infelicity.  Incidentally, do you think if Sigmund 
came home and noticed his wife's dress had ridden up a little, exposing 
her petticoat, he might have said "My dear, your Freudian slip is showing"?

I remember your previous kind offer of spear-type leather tape ends.  
Sad that so many makers of piano materials have gone.

Ron N, I did indeed think about making tape ends. I asked among various 
engineering types at the college where I work, regarding the makng of a 
little die cutter from spring steel.  But nothing has ever yet come of it.

Best regards,

David Boyce.

> Was expeinsive just a Freudian slip? Similar to a bridal strap? Under 
> the same garment?  And where, Sir, is the apostrophe after your 
> tho(!!)?.  And you can save the fare coming down here to knock my 
> teeth out -- my dentist saw to that a while ago.
>
> I still have leather tape ends from the days when you could buy them 
> by the thousand for very little money and since I can find no 
> ready-made tapes (including Renner's) that use the proper braid, I 
> bought a lifetime's worth from the firm who used to make it for 
> Herrburger Brooks and make my own tapes, but not fast enough to make 
> it commercially interesting; that's a project that keeps being knocked 
> off the top of my list of priorities.
>
> Here in England most people call them tie tapes, or just tapes, but 
> the wire I have always called the bridle wire, though Herbert Shead 
> says this is alternatively known as the 'tie wire' or 'tape wire'.  I 
> think 'tie wire' is good and will immediately reform my usage.
>
>
> JD