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Re: Cracked Plastic Bass Clarinet

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2022-07-26 19:40

It sounds from Tony and Steve's comments as though this is a common
and perhaps relatively inexpensive repair. So, to prevent the band director from reactively replacing the instrument as destroyed, your friend should get a local repair person (or two if they're available) to give an estimate for the repair and take that to the director. That should at least whittle the cost down significantly.

But to play Devil's advocate at least in part:

When we in my school district lent out district-owned instruments, we included an agreement that the parents signed taking responsibility for the instrument and promising, in place of paying any rental charge for the instrument's use, to have it repaired if necessary at the parents' expense. Since most of the kids in the program were either buying or renting their own instruments, this was considered a fair trade-off for use of an instrument at no cost.

In practice we never charged a family anything unless damage was caused by really clear negligence on the part of the student or the parents, like driving over the instrument or trying to repair something at home and making things significantly worse instead.

Karl

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