I recently bought a Playasax in a local resale shop.  I need to take
it apart since the section with the reeds has rotated out of position
and it does not play at all.  I read the suggestion from Spencer Chase
in the MMD Archives and will probably try that as a last resort, but
I wonder if anyone has used a less drastic procedure.

 [ See "PlayASax Surgery" by Spencer Chase at
 [ http://mmd.foxtail.com/Archives/Digests/199907/1999.07.31.03.html

Is there anything else I could try before cutting the instrument in
half?  Would Liquid Wrench or heat or tapping, etc., help?

David Sharpe
Western Massachusetts