Tpt life Posted May 31, 2016 Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 My colleague who teaches the orchestra wandered by with a cello in pieces. Asked if I it could be repaired. He said it could not. I asked if I could scavenge the ebony finger board. He asked if I could pop off the face of the body for artistic purposes. Win...win. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drzaius Posted May 31, 2016 Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 Good deal. That little piece of ebony is worth a lot of $$, at least where I am. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkinneb Posted May 31, 2016 Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 I'll say I just dropped $80 on a very small piece...nice find Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted May 31, 2016 Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 Free ebony, that's better than free gold ! Sent from my SM-N910W8 using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted June 1, 2016 Report Share Posted June 1, 2016 What was wrong with the instrument, C? Nothing in the pictures appears broken, just disassembled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tpt life Posted June 1, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2016 7 hours ago, wtnhighlander said: What was wrong with the instrument, C? Nothing in the pictures appears broken, just disassembled. I am not sure. I assume the way the neck failed meant that the cost of repair exceeded the cost of replacement. The neck broke away from the body. School instruments get rented out year for year and the rent pool may have already collected the cost of the instrument. I am just guessing. All I know is that the guy who makes the decision was headed to the dumpster. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post h3nry Posted June 1, 2016 Popular Post Report Share Posted June 1, 2016 Yes, student instruments are generally made pretty cheaply, and instrument repair is expensive. The best way to repair that instrument is probably to glue a new cello onto the back of that ebony. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom King Posted June 1, 2016 Report Share Posted June 1, 2016 Looks like a Chinese cheapo. I'm surprised they even used real Ebony. They probably remembered what it sounded like, and someone said when it broke, "Oh, good." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted June 2, 2016 Report Share Posted June 2, 2016 Carus, did you check closely to be certain that 'ebony' isn't just maple, colored with a sharpie? ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tpt life Posted June 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2016 Not maple for sure. Has the black brown variation. Right grain. Plastic-y where burnished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
collinb Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 Some interesting reading on fingerboard constructions. http://blog.kennedyviolins.com/2013/04/violin-parts-all-about-fingerboards/ Sent from my MotoE2(4G-LTE) using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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