Gaffa Tape - The Discerning Musician's Gold

[RobW]

Ever look at your Gaffa/Duct Tape, and think that you need to use that stuff some day?
Well, RobW has the answer, as lame as it is. Musicians, mainly guitarists need to listen up, for here's a short list of musical purposes you can waste gaffa tape on:


Stopping knobs and switches from moving around whilst playing

Attaching a set list/lyric sheet or what have you to an amp/floor/wall

Trying to cover up the fact that "Fender Strat" of yours is really a Squier

Shutting up your drummer :p

Marking the positions of microphones, amplifiers, drums and pedals onstage

Fixing Droopy/broken microphone clips and holding the mic on the stand

Safely fixing trippable wires to the floor

Temp hifi speaker connection

Marking amplifier settings

Adding some variety to your sex life

Supporting a torch

Securing loose screws on your guitar

Stylizing your instrument, yo

Stopping the batteries banging around and unconnecting in pedals etc.

Helping to hold cases shut

Identifying leads and similar instrument cases

Replacing/securing/augmenting an inappropriate or defective pickup switch




Your average Gaffa Tape:
http://www.silverprint.co.uk/pics/Gaffa-Tape.jpg


If you have any comments, extra ideas for the musician's use of gaffa tape or just want to tell me to drop dead please post. Well, I'd prefer not to hear the latter, despite how much you think it.

[Bisyss]

If you have enough, and fold it over itself*, you could use Gaffa Tape as a replacement guitar strap.

*Of course, if you want to be permanantly strapped to your guitar...

[Soapie]

Making life very hard for players of wind instruments.

[Chassisbot]

Do they have to be musical? Because gaffa tape is useful for EVERYTHING. I once used it to tape a fan to a ceiling. It can also be used, for instance, keeping your furioso dreadnought together when you don't have any superglue handy.

[captain canuck]

it works great for sealing up cracks in doorways and such that you might want covered completely to preserve the accoustics in your practice-room or studio. just don't overdo it, or you'll suffocate.

[RobW]

Do they have to be musical? Because gaffa tape is useful for EVERYTHING. I once used it to tape a fan to a ceiling. It can also be used, for instance, keeping your furioso dreadnought together when you don't have any superglue handy.


Well, this is the music forum, so I'd keep the non-musical ideas for the use of gaffa tape at a low, charmingly funny as they are.

[faragher]

Safely fixing trippable wires to the floor This is of course what gaffer tape is designed for, what with a gaffer being a stage or film electrician [/smug know it all]

Also for:
- Use it in a sticky side out loop to hold spare pleccys nearby
- stick back together brothers expensive (and vintage) 808* after dropping it, absolutely wrecked out of my tiny brain, outside a party we'd just thrown (and it still worked!)
- covering up inconveniently live parts of cabling after impromptu splices
- repairing my tent (it was at a festival, does that count?)

That is all.

* Because "everyone loves an eight-oh-eight" : 10 points for the first to pm me with the artist and track!