A cautionary tale!

    
A cautionary tale!    12:05 on Wednesday, August 1, 2007          

contra448
(771 points)
Posted by contra448

Just had what must be the ultimate bodger in the shop with his Schreiber short reach bassoon.

He has small deformed hands & suffers badly from arthritis so has stuck coins & bits of cork on various keys with superglue (blobs all over the body) to enable him to reach. Fair enough.

However two months ago he broke the wing tenon leaving the tenon jammed in the socket but instead of looking for a repairer immediately (Didn't want to miss his lessons - adult beginner) he glued it with superglue so now the remains are really stuck in the socket & there are dribbles of glue halfway down the bore. Not surprisingly the repair didn't last & he has tried reglueing it a few times - more runs everywhere.

Bright idea!! To make the whole thing more rigid he then proceeded to glue the body lock pin in place - of course, the Law of the Natural Cussedness of Things comes into operation at this point & that HAS stuck!

I suppose he's lucky that the bass joint tenon didn't get destroyed when the other tenon gave way.

Ian


Re: A cautionary tale!    19:01 on Thursday, August 2, 2007          

MercifulMe
(126 points)
Posted by MercifulMe

Oooo that hurts even reading. I wish more people would just tell their students common sense things, so things like this never happen.


Re: A cautionary tale!    12:40 on Saturday, August 4, 2007          

Drew
(371 points)
Posted by Drew

Incredible story. I guess if you have a problem, retro-fitting things to work better is a necessity of life, but I get nervous even thinking about modifying my bassoon in any way!


Re: A cautionary tale!    06:31 on Friday, August 31, 2007          

bandgeek
(14 points)
Posted by bandgeek

OUCH!! That's as close to bassoon blasphemy as you can get! anything beyond tightening screws should be left to the teacher by a beginner!


Re: A cautionary tale!    14:45 on Sunday, September 30, 2007          

musicontrolsme78
(13 points)

I think i died a little on the inside...wow thats bad...


Re: A cautionary tale!    17:29 on Friday, November 30, 2007          

catcolzelda
(2 points)
Posted by catcolzelda

ouch... that hurts.

Catt


   




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