At 15:12 +0100 26/5/10, david at piano.plus.com wrote: >Tape Ends are still available from Jahn in Germany, but it's quite >expeinsive by the time you pay postage (nice company to deal with tho!). Was expeinsive just a Freudian slip? Similar to a bridal strap? Under the same garment? And where, Sir, is the apostrophe after your tho(!!)?. And you can save the fare coming down here to knock my teeth out -- my dentist saw to that a while ago. I still have leather tape ends from the days when you could buy them by the thousand for very little money and since I can find no ready-made tapes (including Renner's) that use the proper braid, I bought a lifetime's worth from the firm who used to make it for Herrburger Brooks and make my own tapes, but not fast enough to make it commercially interesting; that's a project that keeps being knocked off the top of my list of priorities. Here in England most people call them tie tapes, or just tapes, but the wire I have always called the bridle wire, though Herbert Shead says this is alternatively known as the 'tie wire' or 'tape wire'. I think 'tie wire' is good and will immediately reform my usage. JD
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