Klarinet Archive - Posting 000515.txt from 1999/07

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: mail order - local store policy repairs
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 16:30:14 -0400

Well Ed,

Call me overly dramatic, or even, a little emotional, but I've seen it all
(until next time).

Got a clarinet where the band director had attempted to put a pad back with a
little heat. The plastic arount the pad on the lower joint ring key had been
heated so much that the plastic had heaved over the pad cup and the ring key
would not move up or down.

A band director brought me his own personal trombone. Said it played stuffy.
Found a nut with a short piece of string attached quite firmly lodged about
two-thirds down the upper-inner slide. He forgot to tell me that his
improvised slide cleaning tool got stuck.

Got a flute from 35 to 40 miles away and all that was needed was to have a
wire spring rehooked. (You said you can do that).

Do you want more stories?

I have a fair sized collection of do it yourself books; books for band
directors. They suck big time.

A little bit of knowledge is dangerous in the hands of idiots.

I stick with everything I said in my first post.

Yours truly----

Edwin V. Lacy wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Richard Bush wrote:
>
> > They are telling or showing their students that anyone can perform
> > repairs. They are downgrading the real worth of repair technicians who
> > spend all their time, energy and resources to do a job well. They are
> > sending the wrong message to both students and parents in another way.
> > They are telling them that music or involvement in music requires
> > little commitment nor financial underpinning.
>
> Come on, now, this seems a little overly dramatic. I think you got a
> little emotionally carried away while writing this paragraph.
>
> If a spring on a student's instrument is not engaged with its guide, and I
> know how to put it back where it belongs, thereby allowing the student to
> play in a rehearsal rather than sitting and watching, will my doing so
> send all these sinister messages to student? I have to doubt it.
>
> My experience has been that students are more likely to regard music
> teaching in the way you suggested in a previous paragraph:
>
> > The job is harrowing, overwhelming, and at times thankless.
>
> Ed Lacy
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