Marrell Music Band Directors’s Tricks and Tips their instrument doesn’t play and you can save...

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Tool KitTool Kit glue stickglue stick lighterlighter dental tooldental tool feeler gaugefeeler gauge rawhide hammer rawhide hammer spring hook (modified crochet spring hook (modified crochet

hook) hook) painters tape painters tape zip tiezip tie screw driversscrew drivers broken drum stick broken drum stick contact cement contact cement pipe-cleanerspipe-cleaners paperclips paperclips wire cutters wire cutters plierspliers wide rubber band wide rubber band


DON’T DO IT!DON’T DO IT!


INSTRUMENT PROBLEM SOLUTION

Brass Water key corksBroken bracesFinger rings

Painters tapeZip tiesZip ties

Trumpet Stuck 2nd valve - Books in case

2nd slide repositioning.

Brass Stuck slides Drumstick and tapping – conservatively

Brass Stuck Valve caps Rawhide hammer – tappingProtected pliers

Brass Valves – not movingspring, guide casing dents

Remove obstructionRe-align guide and springsend to repair tech

Trombone slide, correcting alignment, dents

Inner slide spread too wide or narrow – flexingTake notice - send to repair tech

Brass


BrassINSTRUMENT PROBLEM SOLUTION























Brass

Brass


TrumpetTrumpetno sound or thin no sound or thin

soundsound

Visual checkVisual check

Valves:Valves:

* wrong order (no air passes * wrong order (no air passes through)through)

* Valve damage * Valve damage

* UFO – Unidentified Foreign * UFO – Unidentified Foreign Object.Object.

Slides:Slides:

*Missing waterkey corks*Missing waterkey corks

*UFO*UFO


FEELER GUAGE


SPRING HOOK

Push (top cut) Pull (inside cut)


Sax NeckSax NeckNo lower notesNo lower notes

Check octave neck key heightCheck octave neck key height

Finger G with the thumb Finger G with the thumb octave down. When the 3octave down. When the 3rdrd finger is lifted the octave neck finger is lifted the octave neck key should rest on the pip. key should rest on the pip. When it stays elevated:When it stays elevated:

Solution - hold neck key down Solution - hold neck key down at the pad cup and with the at the pad cup and with the other hand push the bottom other hand push the bottom ring of the key up as if it ring of the key up as if it toward the pad cup.toward the pad cup.

Recheck and adjust Recheck and adjust accordingly.accordingly.



Flute Head cork

Pads – trill and C

Painters tape – push with dr. stick from bottom up towards embouchure plateGluestick and/or lighter - float like clarinet

Woodwinds Missing padsSticky padsMissing hinge screws

Scotch tape and tissueDollar bill/cigarette paper/goo-gonePaper clips

Clarinet/Sax Tenon corksClarinet pads

Painters tapeGluestick and/or lighter - float pads

Saxophone Mouthpiece/cap jammed in upper stackLoose MP/Worn Tenon corkKeyguard screws missing

Push out with drumstick

Painters tape and advise to remove mp

Paperclip Bassoon Bassoon bocal No sound - clean it - pipe cleaners and

warm soapy water

WoodwindsWoodwinds



Flute Head cork











warm soapy water

WoodwindsWoodwinds


Questions

What other problems do you run across?

Hands-on


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