Fingerboard Tape: Yellow

cheap tape, works fine for a classroom, easy to rip and see, over priced...

The tape looks great, it stands out well against a fingerboard, and I like the width to promote accurate finger placement.However.Every instrument that I have put this tape on has had to be retaped, or in many cases scotch tape has had to be added to hold the ends of this tape in place. I don't know why the adhesive is so weak, but it is not strong enough to keep the tape in place, especially at the ends. I will be looking for a different fingerboard tape for the next school year.

A++++

Can you imagine after taping some 25 violins, violas, cellos and basses, I had to re-tape the tape. The kids didn't even have to touch it for the stuff to start falling off. Talk about wasted class time.

I have taught violin for 17 years using Chartpak tapes. The tapes are colorful, easy to see and durable. You easily tear off as much tape as you want no scissors necessary. When it is time to remove the finger tapes from the instrument, no harmful residue is left behind. I have even used the tapes on the violin body itself without injuring the violin.The tapes to eventually come off the violin, but anything more permanent could be harmful to a delicate instrument. You can get Chartpak tapes in smaller widths (like 1/16 and 1/8) for use on 1/32, 1/16, and 1/8 size violins.I recommend this product.

This tape looked appealing for my students - its thin and colourful. However, it doesn't stay on the instrument very long at all and takes the varnish off of the neck of the violin when you remove it. Not good for anyone renting an instrument at least. Don't invest in this. It's not specifically designed for string playing and so doesn't take into account important things as mentioned above. I now have 4 different colours that I will not use... waste of cash...

When I got this in the mail, the packaging very specifically indicated that this is graphing tape for graphing paper which is meant to be very easily peeled off. It is NOT intended as fingerboard tape for a violin, as the listing suggests. Request a refund if you've ordered in the past 30 days.

As others have written, the tape doesn't stick. I have 220 elementary school string players and am now having to retape all their instruments.