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Re: assess damage

Author: DougR
Date: 2010-10-25 01:48

Michigan, there was a huge long thread here on the board some years ago about Buffet using nylon pins exactly where your instrument is broken (and using them on instruments that sell for 20 times what you paid for yours).

I took my Buffet to a local tech, who knew just what to do, and he machined stainless-steel (& therefore unbreakable) pin replacements for $20 each (there are 2 pins that you'd need to replace--or just fix the one, up to you).

So--easily fixable (although perhaps inconvenient) breakage, plus you'd need to get the horn tweaked anyway for leaks & adjustment, plus a better than original mouthpiece.

Depending on what the visit to the tech turns up, you might have made out fine.

(discl: the $20 was some years ago, YMMV)

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