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instrument cracking

Author: gigaday
Date: 2014-04-15 15:21

I have a 60 year old B&H Regent which I have played for 10 years. It is generally in good condition and plays well enough for my playing standard.

It has had cracks ever since it was manufactured, as far as I can tell, at least one has a pin in it and I am sure that the one previous owner would not have had it repaired. The cracks seem to come and go with the seasons, sometimes opening up and sometimes disappearing almost altogether. With the coming of Spring this year there seem to be a couple of new ones. They are not very big and the instrument still plays as it always has.

I wondered about the possibility of binding the cracks to stop them growing and experimented by clamping the crack at the end of one of the joints to see if I could close it. I used a reasonable but not excessive amount of clamping force and the crack did not close at all - I didn't want to overdo it and do extra damage.

Do people think I should just leave it as it is and carry on playing until something terminal happens? Or it there anything that would be worth doing to halt the progress of the cracking?

Tony

Post Edited (2014-04-24 15:06)

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