Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2006-05-05 14:04
Now, we all know how to get a stuck swab out of our top joints, right?
We all know that you get a crochet hook or coat hanger or long tweezers, or something like that, and back the swab out the BIG end of the joint, right?
Or we take it to a professional for minor surgery, right?
I heard a horror story yesterday, of someone who didn't know that, and couldn't figure it out.
Teenage player got her swab stuck in her Loree headjoint. Pulled and pulled, compacting it even more tightly high in the top joint. Couldn't get it out.
So her father, in an excess of daddy-can-do-anything bravado, decided the thing to do was to take his electric drill, and drill the sucker out. From the top.
Ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch.
He got it out, alright. And also drilled a groove in the headjoint too deep for repair. (They are buying a new headjoint.)
Step away from the instrument, sir . . .
Susan
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