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[2007] Gorilla Glue Strikes Again.

Why I'm Not Fixing Any More High School Band Music Stands.

AwayWeGo said:
Will take the repaired music stand back to the high school rehearsal hall next week.
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Sometimes a leg comes off a music stand. So I take home the stand & the loose broken off leg & do a solid fix job -- drill through the steel base & the steel leg, re-attach the leg using nuts & bolts & J-B Weld, & take the stand back to the school band room.

So far so good -- for a while.

Then the kids notice the repair job & start seeing how hard they have to whang the music stand on the floor to get the bolted & epoxied leg to break off again.

What happens is the reattached leg stays on but the stand gets whapped so hard that the upright bends.

My current idea is not to fix any more school music stands. When the kids bust'm up, they can just do without.

Shux upon'm.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​
 
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Shame on them. The students just don't get it. They don't appreciate the thought, time, and love of music that has gone into every repair. They don't Deserve having the music stands repaired.

I know you were doing this out of your love of music, so it is a shame that the kids didn't appreciate this.

If I am correct in my assessment, then I have a suggestion. Talk to the teacher and ask them to save all the broken stands somewhere. When she notices that this is really putting a cramp on them, she should ask if any of the students would like to learn how to repair the broken ones, I'm guessing they'll respect the repaired ones if they do the repairs.

Oh, and I forgot one thing...the teacher has YOU show the kids how to do the repairs. How does that sound?

Fern
 
AwayWeGo said:
Then the kids notice the repair job & start seeing how hard they have to whang the music stand on the floor to get it to break off again.

What happens is the reattached leg stays on but the stand gets whapped so hard that the upright bends.
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WHERE is the teacher when this is going on? Students are never supposed to be unsupervised in classrooms - this should not be happening.
 
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