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Re: Pad Repair Advice

Author: Chris P
Date: 2021-10-14 01:34

If you want to learn to do this work yourself if you have an interest in woodwind repair, then see if you can make an appointment with a woodwind specialist so they can show you exactly what to do with proper hands-on experience as they can also show you what not to do and what to do if things go wrong.

Only the other week I was handed a flute footjoint in a plastic tub with all the keys and rod screw left loose as the owner said he couldn't get it back together. It turned out he wouldn't have been able to get it back together as the lowest pillar had been bent inwards, the pillar head and key barrels were gouged up on the ends and the rod screw also had some deep gouges in it from the tools they used to take it apart and attempt to put it all back together. Had it been a simple job of putting it back together as normal, I wouldn't have charged him. Only with all the mess to clean up, I ended up charging him as it became nearly an hour's worth of work to sort it out.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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