instrument repair humor
It's been a long time since I've had any good stories from work.
Stacey found this in the Allied tools catalog yesterday:
Technical Tip
1. To complete an especially stubborn repair, give it two sharp kicks, first with right then the left foot.
2. If that doesn't work, hit it with a hammer.
3. If you still are having trouble, get a bigger hammer.
4. Second to last resort. Curse loudly.
5. Last resort, give your customer a new instrument.
I'm glad they have a sense of humor. ^_^ Anyway. Then I had been working on a clarinet repad and it was an old Vito model that had tiny little springs for three of the keys and either it was missing one or I lost one so I asked Lon if we could get more of them to replace it; he said we couldn't and we'd have to MAKE another one. So then I asked Stacey if we had spring wire that small and she said we could still get them, and we did have another one. And then when Lon came back from school routes yesterday he was mad because there was a trumpet that he was supposed to deliver but since he never checked it over to make sure it was alright it never got into the 'done' pile. I think he was trying to blame Amanda but was his own damn fault it didn't get delivered; hence the "CHECK OVER" note on the slip! He can be such a butthead sometimes. XD Umm...I think that's it...other than Amanda giving me a heart attack with the ultrasonic machine, because we found out it wasn't hooked up right before and now it sounds like something's shorting out when you turn it on and then we were sticking our fingers in it to see what it felt like. Heh.
Stacey found this in the Allied tools catalog yesterday:
Technical Tip
1. To complete an especially stubborn repair, give it two sharp kicks, first with right then the left foot.
2. If that doesn't work, hit it with a hammer.
3. If you still are having trouble, get a bigger hammer.
4. Second to last resort. Curse loudly.
5. Last resort, give your customer a new instrument.
I'm glad they have a sense of humor. ^_^ Anyway. Then I had been working on a clarinet repad and it was an old Vito model that had tiny little springs for three of the keys and either it was missing one or I lost one so I asked Lon if we could get more of them to replace it; he said we couldn't and we'd have to MAKE another one. So then I asked Stacey if we had spring wire that small and she said we could still get them, and we did have another one. And then when Lon came back from school routes yesterday he was mad because there was a trumpet that he was supposed to deliver but since he never checked it over to make sure it was alright it never got into the 'done' pile. I think he was trying to blame Amanda but was his own damn fault it didn't get delivered; hence the "CHECK OVER" note on the slip! He can be such a butthead sometimes. XD Umm...I think that's it...other than Amanda giving me a heart attack with the ultrasonic machine, because we found out it wasn't hooked up right before and now it sounds like something's shorting out when you turn it on and then we were sticking our fingers in it to see what it felt like. Heh.