David, Has anybody thought of making these tapes double ended, twice the length. They could then come on a roll, with the tape ends only just joined along the edge. This would make it very easy to roll off however many is needed, then placed flat on a cutting board, the tape length measured off, ruler laid over and all cut to length within seconds with a pizza-type roller cutter. I currently lay my tapes, side-by-side on double-sided sticky tape, then trim this way. > 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 > > >
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