11/11/2025
Here we have it! 🙄
A 20 key rosewood Lachenal that someone thought that the best way to tune the reeds would be to slacken off the clamping screws on the reed shoes 😬.
It makes the tuning job take much longer than it should as the reeds have to be re centered and the screws carefully tightened the right amount (they snap off easily if over tightened, so great care must be taken).
The screws have to be tightened enough so that the reeds can't move sideways, and that is pretty tight.