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Archive for February 9th, 2026

The Meinl TMT1B-BK Tambourine on the MC-TH Tambourine Holder: use Reece Cotton Tape makes it fit perfectly

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/09

I combined these two Meinl percussion products

After about 10 years of use, the foam handle of the tambourine started deteriorating, so I already had replaced it with Reece Cotton Tape (a grip tape for instance used with hockey sticks).

Last year, I added more grip tape to make it snug fit the MC-TH Tambourine Holder as without grip tape (even with foam padding), that would be a way too loose fit.

Products:

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A few diagrams.net (formerly draw.io, see below why) that made me more productive with it

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/09

Diagram.net is a wonderful on-line and off-line drawing tool that saves drawings in XML format and provides a rich set of shapes libraries.

It used to start out as draw.io (well, actually diagram.ly when some parts were still Java applets), but then in 2020 started migrating to migrate to diagrams.net, both for domain and name, because, well a [Wayback/Archive] wonderful piece of modern day British Imperialism. See [Wayback/Archive] Blog – Open source diagramming is moving to diagrams.net, slowly for details.

Oh yes, this is one of the tools where Java and JavaScript actually are related (:

The tool is still open source at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – jgraph/drawio: Source to app.diagrams.net.

These were helpful links:

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