What to Do?
- JTeagarden
- Posts: 625
- Joined: Feb 24, 2025
Looking for advice on "doing right" by someone:
At an outdoor performance the other night, I dropped the plexiglass sheet from the stand, and it hit the bell of my sectionmate's horn, leaving a scratch in lhe lacquer maybe 2-3' long, about the thickness of a hair or two: no dent, just a scratch, no displacement of the metal to speak of.
I "man up" when I mess up, and I'll pay to fix it, but assume that removing the scratch would require buffing and relacquering the whole bell, and that this might well be a cure worse than the disease?
Alternative "make right" gestures?
At an outdoor performance the other night, I dropped the plexiglass sheet from the stand, and it hit the bell of my sectionmate's horn, leaving a scratch in lhe lacquer maybe 2-3' long, about the thickness of a hair or two: no dent, just a scratch, no displacement of the metal to speak of.
I "man up" when I mess up, and I'll pay to fix it, but assume that removing the scratch would require buffing and relacquering the whole bell, and that this might well be a cure worse than the disease?
Alternative "make right" gestures?
- tbonesullivan
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- Joined: Jul 02, 2019
Did you tell your section mate on the spot? In general it would be up to them.
- JTeagarden
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[quote="tbonesullivan"]Did you tell your section mate on the spot? In general it would be up to them.[/quote]
Yes, of course
Yes, of course
- AtomicClock
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- Joined: Oct 19, 2023
[quote="JTeagarden"]Alternative "make right" gestures?[/quote]
Take it to an engraver, and have the "scar" be the first stroke of a new artwork.
Take it to an engraver, and have the "scar" be the first stroke of a new artwork.
- JTeagarden
- Posts: 625
- Joined: Feb 24, 2025
tempting, tempting...