Klarinet Archive - Posting 000150.txt from 2001/09

From: "Kevin Fay" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Marking rental music
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 13:49:44 -0400

David posted:

<<<All right, I am pissed. I admit it. I wrote a post on this topic a few
years ago and got little sympathy although it baffled me at the time and
still does). I will post another plea PLEASE DO NOT DESTROY RENTAL MUSIC BY
MARKING IT TO DEATH!!!!>>>

Please let me join the collective "arrgh!" over this.

Back when I did a lot more pit work, I borrowed an appliance from my Dad to
clean up the rental parts. It was -- honest! -- an electric eraser. It had
a little electric motor that would spin an eraser like a drill; with the
white plastic sort of eraser inserted, you could get most of the excrement
off the page in a jiffy.

This was a useful tool for draftsmen back when airplane drawings were
real-size, and actually drawn by hand. Today they are all done on computer,
so I haven't seen an electric eraser marketed in years. Perhaps the
Woodwind & Brasswind could spot the potential market and . . .

kjf

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