Hi Phil I can most likely make you another screw and one area I specialise in is
removing screws from awkward places without damage to other components.
Should there not be time to sort now then at least retain all parts from the
unit if replaced and I will make replacements for the future if required -
especially as it appears to be an inherrant problem with that particular
component...
Best regards Nick (nick@... 01245 233429)


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> Thanks for the offer but I think I know the kind of screw you mean. The chrome
screw on my Boudet is a screw thread but with a !/2" [approx] serrated wheel set
into the plastic bit. If you go to Boudet's web site you will see the tuners on
one of his lute-backs. Another problem is that the bottom half of the srew is
still in the shaft with nothing to grab onto to get it out.
> Unfortunatly Boudet does not have an email on his website so I will have to
take pot luck.
> I will be seeing Raymond Chance on Wednesday as he is putting a laminated
wheels on my Pimpard so I will ask him.
> Talking of the Pimpard, if you do a search for the Belle Epoque de la Vielle
Montlucon exhibition you will see Gilbert Malochet playing a dead-ringer for my
Pimpard, exciting stuff if it turns-out that it is the same instrument.
> Anyway, hope you are keeping well and thank's again for the offer.
> Phil
> Philip G Martin aka Drohne
> www.drohne.co.uk
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> Subject: Re: [HurdyGurdyForum] Broken tuner on Boudet
> To: HurdyGurdyForum@...
> Date: Monday, 6 July, 2009, 6:30 PM
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> Phil,
> if it is just the little screw that goes in from the top, I think I have a
spare one you can have. Cheers and have fun in Fance
> Scott
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> From: JULIE BARKER <drohne@btinternet. com>
> Subject: [HurdyGurdyForum] Broken tuner on Boudet
> To: HurdyGurdyForum@ yahoogroups. co.uk
> Date: Monday, 6 July, 2009, 10:54 AM
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> Everer since i got my first gurdy 20 years ago [a Chris Eaton] people kept
warning me that the mechanical tuners can shear-off inside, well it has happened
on my Boudet. The chrome wheel at the top of the tuner has broken-off and left
the tuner with no strength to hold a D drone to tension.
> Has anyone else who has had this problem come up with a temporary solution?
> So far I have changed the petit bourdon to the gross bourdon position.
> I am off to Ars [Saint Chartier] tomorrow so will hopefully get Monsieur
Boudet to replace the tuner with one that matches, that is if he still uses the
same ones.
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> Philip G Martin aka Drohne
> www.drohne.co. uk
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