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Re: What would you do?

Author: EaubeauHorn
Date: 2018-03-23 21:48

It had played perfectly fine the day before I got the weirdness. Like I said, I take responsibility for my stupidity about the alignment, and no longer store it on the stand. It was twisted just the tiniest bit and my hand alignment was not far enough off that I noticed. And it had been to a local guy for adjustment after it fell, within the last week. One of the keys was still slow, and I didn't want to take it back to him because he makes sexual innuendos the entire time I am there and I get really tired of that. So I was going to make the drive to the other place anyway, for what I thought would be a very minor adjustment of the slowly responding right hand pinky key, and then the weirdness occurred.

Did it need cleaning? Maybe. But it played, for my purposes, perfectly well. When I had got it off ebay (Rigoutat Expression, which ergonomically is very good for me) and took it to my very competent teacher, he had found a slight bend in one of the left pinky keys, fixed it, said he bet that was why they sold it, and it was of a quality that he would play it at a concert immediately. So it was not messed up when I bought it.....and I had no problems until it got knocked over. I was lucky in that it was not badly messed up and needed only minor adjustment, but then the next day the sticky key. Followed by the weirdness and the two hour trip to a pretty well known shop which clearly I am not going to identify. And the rest of the story. I still feel like I was ripped off because if they had put it together and play tested it, they would have found very little to do and I would not feel like I burned a pile of money in the back yard.

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