Instrument Repair

If you turn the E20 up-side-down, take out all marked srews. Turn it again carefully. You now can open it. You'll find the battery a little left of the centre. It looks like the back-up-battery of a computer motherboard, just a little bigger.

Succes in trying!

You still have to remove the 7 screws from the PCB (printed circuit board) were the battery is mounted on. So you can lift the print a little at the battery side and remove the battery. Otherways the back plate with the in & output holes are in the way to shove the battery backwards out of its holder.

Peace of cake... just be a little careful with the attached PCB cables.

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the action on mine was super high. i adjusted the truss rod one full turn clockwise. and then put some elixir polyweb light gauge strings on it. its by no means a gig guitar, i have my takamine for that but this made it a decent guitar to throw in the trunk without any fear of damaging something valuable. one thing i will say for first act is that the tuners are great. (at least on mine) it holds a tune very well. i habnt done it yet but i may sand down the bridge saddle a bit as well just to make it abit more comfortable to play. happy jamming.

There does not seem to be a brand of trumpets called Cortley. There is a famous trumpet player with the last name of Courtley, but he does not make trumpets at this time (2014).

Sure. Also just putting in in a corner of a room will usually lower the tone. Putting it on a carpet piece will help too.

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Dead spots are a commonly misunderstood term by guitarists. A true dead spot is a note / notes that has / have a very quick decay (sustain) with little to no lower fundamental tones on stringed instruments.

Paste the link below into your browser address field for more information about true dead spots:

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In the case of a true dead spot one must either replace the neck, if feasible, with one that has no dead spots, try a device called a "Fat Finger" (which really only changes one dead spot for another), or replace the guitar entirely on a set neck guitar / bass.

Fret buzz / rattles and fretting out (strings hitting the next upper fret and not sounding) on the other hand ARE NOT true dead spots. They are sometimes mistakenly termed dead spots, but now you know the difference.

In the case of buzz / rattle, and fretting out, a guitar neck can be fixed in a number of ways, depending on the cause.

From easiest to hardest:

1. Get a guitar / bass 'setup' that may include setting neck relief, adjusting nut / bridge height and intonation, and fret dressing - sanding, leveling, grinding, re-fretting or a combination thereof, by a good Luthier (guitar repair / builder) for usually under $100 (US - 2009). Your best bet.

2. Raise the action. If you have an electric guitar, it probably has an adjustable bridge.

Raise your bridge or bridge inserts a bit. On an acoustic, you can try a new, taller saddle or shim your current one with wood veneer or cardboard. Remember too high of an action will make any guitar hard to play.

3. Adjust the truss rod (set neck relief). If your neck is too straight (buzzing at the first 5 frets) it will not allow the string to vibrate in it's natural arch. If it is too bowed (usually buzzing above the 12th fret) fretting strings will be hard. Get a proper sized Allen wrench and turn the rod counter clockwise to introduce some relief (bow) into the neck or turn the truss rod clockwise to straighten it. A quarter turn is usually safest. Be careful, a broken truss rod is not easy to replace. It's best to set string height to an average of 3/32" measured at the 12th fret before setting relief.

4. Shim the neck. Loosen the strings, unbolt the neck & drop some thin strips (1/32, 1/16) of whatever (cardboard, metal, wood, plastic) in there. This will offset some bowing. If you find there are shims in there already, try removing them. This is usually best left to a Professional.

5. Replace the neck - Naturally, if your neck is badly warped, twisted, or cracked, you can possibly buy a replacement from your local guitar shop who can also install it for you as they will need to set it up properly for your guitar.

And if all else fails you can always sell it as-is on Craigslist or eBay and start over again.

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The best way to remove a mouthpiece is with a mouthpiece puller. Most music stores will have a puller, and some will even pull mouthpieces for free. You will get a lot of other suggestions on how to pull the mouthpiece. The problem is, if you use pliers or other inappropriate tools, even with padding of some kind, you can damage the trumpet. The only relatively safe way to try it yourself is to hold the trumpet's mouthpiece tube (ahead of the mouthpiece) under the hot water tap for a couple of minutes. While doing this, hold a package of frozen vegetables, or the like, around the mouthpiece. The idea is to get the mouthpiece as cold as possible, and the pipe as warm as possible. Then, using a hot pad, try to extract the mouthpiece. This may or may not work (it does most of the time) but if it doesn't, it causes no harm to the trumpet.

You will have to get a new neck.

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A stripped truss rod nut can indeed be fixed. There are special not retrieving sockets that may do the trick- they are often in the automotive section of hardware stores. Sometimes these are too bulky to fit in the nut cavity. In this case you either have to visit a luthiery supply site and purchase the specific(costly) tools. The best bet in the end will be to take this to a guitar tech.

Do not plat any wood wind instruments outside when it is humid or cold, and i would recommend not playing any wind instruments outside when it is cold because if the horn is cold, then you warm it up, then it gets cold, then you warm it up...... eventually the metal might crack, and it is not cheap to get it replaced

Google search the hard reset procedure. It worked on mine.

Get a clean rag, and some Martin guitar polish, spray the polish on the spot and buff the spot out with the rag.

You probably have a loose ground in there somewhere. But since there's only about 200 grounding points in your organ, finding the loose one's going to take some doing.

If you're talking about what is should be tuned to, then it is a high E.

Yes, it can be done, but diminished performance should be expected. In other words, once the cone has been torn and repaired, it may not sound as good as it did when new.

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Sounds like you might have a string rattling against a fret on the keyboard.

While fingering different chords, play each string alone and see if one rattles. Look to see if it is rattling against a fret. If so, some adjustment will be needed.

This is not unusual in low priced guitars.

I suggest u buy an electric tuner. then the manager can tell u instuctions!

If you're going to sodder it in yourself the jack itself costs like $6.