paul, A standard soft leaded pencil with eraser is cheap, convenient, and if you change your details the pencil has probably worn down by the next appointment. Bruce Browning The Piano Tuner. > For pencils, I use mechanicals exclusively. I buy a .5mm-lead size, then > purchase little boxes of replacement leads which last quite a while, as > long > as I don't drop the pencil on a hard floor very often. .7mm is another > popular size, but I like the finer point of the .5mm. I would imagine > that > the bulk promotional pencils are quite likely one of the two. > > When I refill the pencil, I only ever put in two leads so that if I drop > the > pencil it minimizes the lead loss from breakage. > > Paul Bruesch > Stillwater, MN > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Tom Sivak <tvaktvak at sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >> Dave >> I would prefer to give mechanical pencils, myself, for the same reason. >> People don't mark their music with pens, but with pencils. The problem >> I've encountered is that the mechanical pencils you buy in bulk from >> these >> promo companies have only two short pieces of lead in them. They >> wouldn't >> be useful for very long. >> >> Have you noticed this problem? If not, where did you get your pencils >> from? >> >> Tom Sivak >> >
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