Covering up the names of manufacturers on musical insturments using tape or other marking device

Quite right too - I've been adopting this approach to my clothing for the last 25+ years!

Of course, when I first started doing it, it was intended as a potent statement of defiance in the face of what I saw as the rising designer culture, the increasing pervasiveness of major corporations, and the homegenisation of individuals in our society into one vast undifferentiated mass, devoid of any imagination, personality or individual distinguishing features beyond the labels on our shirts.

These days it's got more to do with not particularly wanting people to know that I'm just another sad unimaginative middle-aged twat who buys most of his clothes from Marks & bastard Spencer, just like all the other sad unimaginative middle-aged twats.