Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2002-02-01 14:49
Just like NZ. What progressive countries.
To make your own powder paper....
Get a face tissue, a really strong (commercial type) toilet tissue (the sort you hate using!), or pretty well any other thin paper.
Rub talcum powder (or teflon powder) into it. Preferrably unscented because the scent is oil, which could add to stickiness.
Shake it to remove all visible trace of the powder.
Drag under the closed, DRY, offending pad.
What is good about the Yamaha papers is that they are resilient enough to fit easily down to the tone hole when the tone hole is slightly below the level of the body, have sufficient lengthwise grain to be torn into straight strips of suitable width, and yet VERY tough in the direction in which they will be drawn. Unfortunately they have rather too much powder, which can be shaken off.
Any thick deposits of powder on the pads is likely to cause seating problems, and powder applied to the pads applied in any quantity is likely to get over the mechanism. For some reason it seens to accelerate corrosion of the metal surface, but worse, it absorbs the oil from the pivots and tends to allow them to rust. Use only traces of powder.
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