Re: Gaffa

[Anders Hultman <anders.hultman@unisource.se>]

craig@sco.COM (Craig Heath) wrote:

> I know this is an old, old argument.  The crux of it in the past seems
> to have been "well I've never heard anyone call it gaffer tape".
> I fail to see what can be done about such narrow-mindedness, except
> to say that when I went in to a music shop in Leamington Spa quite
> a few years ago, and asked for a roll of "duct tape", the muso behind
> the counter replied "oh, you mean gaffer tape?".  QED, as far as I'm
> concerned.

Amongst Swedish broadcasters that special type of tape is called gaffa 
tape, not gaffer's tape. I have more than one time jumped in amazement 
when people around me have said the word "gaffa" meaning the tape, people 
that have never heard of Kate Bush or rec.music.gaffa. Gaffa is a word 
that is in use,m not a word that everyone uses every day since it is a 
word mostly used in the "trade", but anyway a normal word.

In the television studio (actual example): 
Lena:  Have Lars fixed the broken camera yet?
Malin: He probably has fixed it his usual way; by tying it up with gaffa tape.

anders