Klarinet Archive - Posting 000623.txt from 1997/04

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Cigarette paper? Was Re: Sticky pads
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 00:53:20 -0400

On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Karl Krelove wrote:

> You're right. My students have trouble getting cigarette paper, too. Their
> parents usually are willing to buy it for them. In this area, it's actually
> getting harder to find it - a lot of stores, in keeping with the move to
> discourage smoking, are not carrying it (or cigarettes) anymore. To make
> things a little harder, you have to be very careful if you use gummed
> papers, or you have to take the added step of cutting the gummed edge off.

There is something that can substitute quite nicely for cigarette papers,
and in fact seem to work better. These are used at hairdresser's salons,
and are called "end papers." (I don't know exactly what they are
originally designed to be used for, as I have never patronized such an
establishment, and my wife has not communicated that secret information to
me!) ;-)

These papers are _not_ gummed, and they are larger and more absorbent than
the infamous cigarette papers. They are available at barber-and-beauty
supply houses, and I recently was told that they can be bought in the
women's cosmetic section of such stores as Walmart and K-Mart.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu