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Re: What would you do?

Author: mschmidt
Date: 2018-03-23 21:13

I don't think we have adequately established that the repair shop EaubeauHorn was using was in fact disreputable. We know that, the day AFTER EaubeauHorn brought his oboe back from the repair shop, his problem was due to misalignment. But what if the problem in the previous days and weeks was poor sealing of pads and misadjustment? Maybe the misalignment occurred after servicing because the corks were newly greased and the joint was more slippery than he or she was used to. We do not have data on what would have happened if the oboe was correctly aligned before servicing.

If you drive repair techs out of business because you hazard guesses as to their competence based on insufficient data, what will you do when you have a problem that you can't fix yourself? Do you want to attempt your first crack pinning on your own and only instrument, without any more training than what you can find on YouTube? Sure, we need to be careful about making sure the techs we pay are competent--but "careful" may sometimes include giving them the benefit of the doubt.

Mike

Still an Amateur, but not really middle-aged anymore

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