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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?

Did you tell your section mate on the spot? In general it would be up to them.

tbonesullivan wrote: Wed Jul 16, 2025 7:42 am Did you tell your section mate on the spot? In general it would be up to them.

Yes, of course

JTeagarden wrote: Wed Jul 16, 2025 7:25 am Alternative "make right" gestures?

Take it to an engraver, and have the "scar" be the first stroke of a new artwork.

tempting, tempting...