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Re: Low F/C problem repair help

Author: BartHx
Date: 2014-09-14 20:37

This may not help in the short term but, if your tech is "too busy" to help you solve a problem that has come back after he/she has worked on your instrument, you definitely need to find a new tech. This sounds like a shop in my area. I have yet to see an instrument come out of there that was playable. Once they return an instrument, they are done and will not make any further adjustments. Probably the worst situation I am aware of with them is when a friend took his flute in to get one loose cork bumper re-glued. The next thing he knew, his flute was completely disassembled and they were unable to reassemble it. They could not reassemble it because they had bent some of the gold keys in the process of taking it apart and did not know enough about the instrument to even identify which of the keys were so badly bent. I have also seen them try to use two large pairs of Vise-Grips to try to tighten the nut on an audio jack on a solid body guitar.

The advice given by the above responses is good. Look very closely. Especially with the crow foot, it can often be hard to see where things are touching when they should not. A rotated needle spring can often be equally hard to spot without taking something apart.

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