Author: inhorn
Date: 2009-10-02 09:07
1. Repairing cracks in a bell is the most difficult of wood repair one can do. Matching the curvature of the bell with the insertion of a pin can be hard, but what you are describing is what i would refer to as a hack job.
2. well said, Mark Charette : Would you accept a car repair like that?
3. in my experience, bells only crack when they are dropped. I have only pined bells as a practice exercise, and then only 'junk' bells.
4. My advise, if you had brought it into my shop : Buy a new bell, or live with the cracks.
Inhorn band instrument repair is a woodwind specialty shop located in Houston, Texas, just on the edge of the Houston Heights.
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