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Toby is an ex-colleague of my Wife and good friend of us both. He's so thrilled to own that keyboard..... and it was lovely to see it brought back to life on Repair Shop!

I was under the impression that suppliers or manufacturers have a potential obligation for several years, regardless of stated warranty period. In any case I would be looking to return this to Allen and Heath or at least have a phone conversation with them about what to do. This is an expensive item to have develop such a serious fault, and likely requires specialist product knowledge that would make it too time consuming for an independent repairer to trace economically. A&H will have a service manual or similar for in-house engineers.

The keyboard one is nowhere as painful

Thanks all for your comments - I’ve just pulled the trigger! Time to find my screwdriver 😂 best of luck with your hunt @Woodinblack!

Probably going to cut down the amount that I go to the Shirley British Legion open mic night, as the guitarist who plays bass badly is also the one sat at the mixer who can just grab his bass and impose himself on whoever's playing, and I'm finding it a bit stressful (it's OK when somebody other than me who can play bass is playing, it's not so good when you're anticipating 25% of the notes being out of tune, time, or both). Plus we only get two songs apiece so Mrs Zero has even less to do than I have. Still, I did get to play a couple of songs with Annette that I've never played (or, in one case, heard) before, so that was fun. Rather sobering event coming home from it. I leave the M42 at junction 10, and the roundabout was partially closed off by a number of police cars and another couple of vehicles, plus an ambulance. Going past the scene, I caught a glimpse of someone lying on the road with a full-face helmet a metre away from them. No sign of activity around them. It didn't look good.

La Bella Super Polished Strings arrived... and the E snapped during installation. Not La Bella's fault as I was trying to fit them on a shortie and their website does warn against winding the speaking part of the string around the post, although this is the first set of flats of any brand that I've had break doing this with large traditional post sizes - even their DTF are fine. The IAH set are fine too for this. I did contact BD to see if I could buy just a replacement E string, but they don't stock individuals and getting one from La Bella would take about 6 - 8 weeks. I've put the old strings back on instead. Just annoyed that I've thrown away £35. Hopefully La Bella will get some shortscale ones made at some point.

Gone with the Wind - Allie Wrubel

I have a 6 string fretless Dean Edge as my main bass and I must say its fantastic! Its from around 2006-2009 (those years are a little hazy...) The original model was black but I brought it from my friend after he swapped the necks on the two that he had because he thought the pickups would work better thay way round and he wasn't wrong. So mine is red with emg-hz pickups Neck is smooth and flat, very easy to play and sounds great DI, or amplified alone or with effects. For their price now, you can't go wrong!

Yes that's right. This is the bass in question It has fret markers on the side at every fret which is madness because they're all single dots, the same size

I don’t think I can ever watch that show again after they murdered that old Jazz bass.