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Coventry Telegraph

December 26, 2025

HOW do you mend a broken cello?

With cello tape, of course!Ho ho! Sorry, I think I may have pulled one too many Christmas crackers. That always puts me in a funny frame of mind, although not “funny” in the sense of “amusing”, as I believe I've just amply demonstrated.

It's a serious question, mind you the cello-mending one that's being asked tonight on The Repair Shop's latest (here comes that phrase again) Christmas special.

This story is from the December 26, 2025 edition of Coventry Telegraph.

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