Our Yamaha mellophones are fantastic- but why are a quarter of our mellophones incapable of holding their music? And having that be due to design and manufacturing defects on a premium product from a Japanese manufacturing company?

I mean, it's pretty cool. But so are dinosaurs- and I'd rather have a puppy than a triceratops. But in this case, I took the Triceratops.

Well, here's a simplified explanation at least. And there's a few caveats....

(it only took me.... literal days. running software on unusual systems makes it slightly hard to get help... who would've known‽)