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Author: knotty
Date: 2015-05-22 01:42
Finally down to my last couple packs of pipe cleaners and ZigZag so I thought surely Walgreens our local drug store would have it. They told me they haven't had anything to do with smoking for ten years. Next liquior stores, nope, same story. Things have changed!
Update: looked online and there are zillions of them....haha!
So what are you using to clean key hinge rod tubes?
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Post Edited (2015-05-22 01:45)
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2015-05-22 02:58
I buy pipe cleaners in bags of about 100 from a craft shop. They're used to make armatures for clay or papier mache figures. Cigarette papers from my local newsagent.
Tony F.
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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2015-05-22 03:58
We still have a few smoke shops in suburban Philly. I did have to look at several to find cigarette paper without a gummed edge. I think I got my last pack of pipe cleaners at a local Rite-Aid (pharmacy).
Karl
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Author: knotty
Date: 2015-05-22 04:33
I'm relieved pipe cleaners are available online, even in different sizes, maybe for the paper the local medical pot store must have it. If not, was thinking of trying a piece of my space blanket, that should last me the rest of my life.
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Author: saxlite
Date: 2015-05-22 04:54
I go to the local smoke shop to buy pipe cleaners and Zippo lighter fluid (Naptha). Pipe cleaners from the craft shops are not very good for tweaking musical instruments- they are made from some non-absorbent fluff that doesn't work well.
Music stores sell Yamaha packs of Yamaha pad cleaning paper which work OK- but Naptha and a Q-Tip swab is better, especially on larger sax pads.
Jerry
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Author: Wisco99
Date: 2015-05-22 06:43
This kind of makes me nostalgic of the head shops of days gone by that stocked rolling papers and pipe cleaners (for musical purposes only of course).
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Author: BartHx
Date: 2015-05-22 20:19
Music Medic has mylar sheets intended to be cut into feeler gauges for seating pads. Pipe cleaner like devices can be found at crafts stores and at some garden supply stores (to support small plants against stakes). I live in the California foothills where both are available at your nearest Quick Stop type store (for use with home grown tobacco products only, of course).
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Author: kilo
Date: 2015-05-23 00:31
I have an old pack of OCB papers which are nice because there's no glue. I don't know if they're still available. (This is more of a problem with the larger tone holes on my tenor sax.)
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Author: knotty
Date: 2015-05-23 01:32
Thank you for more tips and info.
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Author: Matt Locker
Date: 2015-05-23 20:06
Go to your local hair dresser & ask for some curler papers. They work great and don't have any glue to worry about. I purchased a box 10 years ago & expect it to last the remainder of my life. Funny thing was the woman knew exactly what I needed them for. She said she brings them home for her brother, a sax player.
MOO,
Matt
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Author: knotty
Date: 2015-05-23 22:39
Thanks Matt, there are plenty of hair dressers in this city.
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