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 Re: Teflon tape as Goldbeater's Skin
Author: RobinDesHautbois 
Date:   2012-04-17 10:59

I use "Stretch and Seal", clear cellophane, cut into rings with an Olfa knife.

There are 3 purposes for using these:
1. if you wire the reed, it helps keep the twist from cutting your lip!!!!
2. it helps seal the reed
3. if the reed is undecided if it wants to slip or not, fishkin (gold-beaters-skin), teflon or cellophane will allow you to make up its mind

The advantages of synthetic is that they resist tearing better, so you can pull harder. Some might view this as a bad crutch.

In my experience, reeds that need these for sealing are doomed: they should seal perfectly just with the binding. But there are some reeds that play really well save for a minor glitch.

Same thing for point 3.

Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music
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