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Your flute is a precision instrument and can easily go wrong.   But you can equally easily correct minor  faults yourself.  The secret is knowing what to look for - and of course, knowing what to do when you find it.

Eddie Ashton's brilliant little "get you home" pocket book, helps you to keep your flute in tip top condition.  He shows you how to correctly assemble and care for your flute.  He also shows you how to detect faults, how to do minor on the spot repairs and adjustments and,  equally important, when to take your flute to your repairer.

Apart from the actual page shown above, Eddie covers the following problems:

1:  Some of the screws on my flute keep mysteriously undoing themselves.  What can I do about it?

2:  I can only get a sort of high C# and nothing else. What's wrong?

3:  My F# is difficult to play.

4:  My pads keep sticking.

5:  I can see some of the skin covering on one of my pads has torn and is hanging down.  How do I     replace the pad?

6:  I can't get bottom C only the C#.

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