Originally Posted by
ScottCommutes
I've been a music teacher for 30 years and I absolutely hate fixing string instruments! Tuning pegs don't stay put. Fallen bridges. Loose strings. Broken strings (I don't mind steel string guitar strings or truss rods for some reason). Bows. Stuff rattling inside the instruments. I hate it all. The instruments are very easy for kids to screw up.
I don't mess with sound posts or actual repairs.
Hahaha then you get it lol. It took me many years of learning by doing but I can now reset sound posts (Violins and Violas are easy, Cellos are hardest) and repair small cracks and seams coming apart, fit new bridges, etc. really the only thing I can’t do are bow rehairs and peg fitting but bows are pretty cheap to replace even though it feels wasteful and I can usually find a peg that fits in my parts stash.
My most satisfying type of repair is scavenging parts from two busted instruments or cases to make one good one.
This is so real! Any broken beyond repair immediately becomes a parts instrument, like with bikes…. Let’s just say after many years, I’ve got a Lot of parts lol.