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Re: Higher resistance improves overtime?

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-09-09 23:20

fskelley wrote:

> Is it really
> variation in unfixable things?- such that if you make a poor
> choice you are stuck?- or is it just things that a top tech
> could fix or modify?

If the design is sound, it's generally something that a knowledgeable tech can fix - even in the case of the routinely maligned Buffets. Mechanism can be adjusted (just as it can be customized), bad pads can be replaced and poorly seated ones moved. The point in general is that players want to avoid the added cost and inconvenience of having a new instrument "fixed" to meet its intended specs and playing quality. The issue here isn't that the out-of-tune instrument can't be tuned or stuffy notes can't be cleared up, but it takes shop time and a tech's skill if the instrument doesn't play its best off the shelf.

Karl

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