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Re: Due maintenance!

Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2003-05-11 02:52

Our Australian notes are made of some sort of plastic/polymer and useless as an abrasive. We lost our dollar notes, an attractive mottled brown, sometime around 1983/84 and replaced them with a stylish faux gold coin. The demise of the two dollar note, a greeny turquoisey creation, occured a couple of years later when it too was replaced by a faux gold coin which for some reason is smaller than the one dollar. The smallest denomination of note is the five dollar and alas paper notes have all but disappeared except for the odd $100 or $50 left in circulation which of course we musicians are lucky to ever see.

1200 grit wet and dry or even ordinary 80GSM copy paper would have a similar effect. A waterproofing treatment will probably stop it from happening and there are a number of options available. Another helpful hint is to stop drinking soft drinks before, during or after playing. In my workshop I every second instrument that comes through has pad damage or gunge built up that is caused by sugary drinks.

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