Home / Forums / Melodica construction, repair and maintenance / Trouble shooting broken melodica / Reply To: Trouble shooting broken melodica Reply To: Trouble shooting broken melodica January 17, 2017 at 10:58 pm #8142 Kyle Johnson-EversParticipant Yes I never unscrewed the metal part where the reeds are. I thought it should work without the other case but it wasn’t working, and then I tried to put everything back just to double check and that didn’t fix it.