Klarinet Archive - Posting 000181.txt from 2009/02

From: Martin Marks <martymarks@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Teflon Tape
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:26:31 -0500

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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Nancy Buckman" <eefer@-----.com>
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 1:55 PM
>Subject: Re: [kl] Teflon Tape
>
>
>Well, somehow I didn't get the message below. So I will answer it now. I
>use
>teflon tape on all the joints on all of my instruments Don't create
>problems
>where they don't exist. Teflon tape ISN"T like ice. Things are snug and
>secure
>when spaces are filled with tape.
>
>I worked for over twenty years as a certified Aquatics Facility operator and
>used
>teflon tape to seal pipes under pressure (those with 800 gallons of water
>passing
>through every minute. I never had a problem with the tape.
>
>You don't have to use it if you don't want to, but don't insinuate that you
>know it
>won't work correctly, when many of us use all the time and have no issues
>with it.
>Change is so hard for some people, and very easy for the rest of us.
>
>Nancy

There are those who believe that what they learned from their first instructor are rules that are written in stone. There are
those that are playing on the same mouthpiece they used in high school. Never were curious enough to try another. "if it aint broke".
Thus it is with cork.

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