Oh, hahaha, this is what happens if you're not paying attention. Of course I didn't put the pin back in with the keys like this, I just put it on.
There, all fixed. We had to take the keys apart again to oil the flute.
On to saxophones! This is the confusing mess on my workbench.
The bell of my project saxophone. It's a Vito (which is basically a cheap Yamaha, everyone keeps telling me)
Here you can see the octave pip (pyp?) coming down into the body. Pretty cool huh?
This is a funny angle of my saxophone. The mellophone bell in the background kind of looks like a weird part of it.
Oh! A dented tonehole. It's slightly out of round. I can't wait to fix that.
This is my plastic dentroller. We had a marine visit us few weeks ago that told us about this trick. It's just a plumbers tubing, radian bearings and some stoppers (the stoppers are inside so you can't see them). This can probably be done without the stoppers if it's glued properly in place, but I didn't want to take a chance on that. Oh, and a steel rod. I had to make the end of the tube a bit smaller at the ends (done on a lathe in about half an hour) to fit the bearings in.
Doesn't that look nice? I have yet to try mine, but I've tried the one my classmate Sam Skavnak made.
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