Gah! I have the most fail violin ever, but for >$20, I guess you get what you pay for. I thought I could get a super cheap violin for my little sister, but it's more trouble that it's worth!

It's supposed to have ebony fittings, but all of the wood is painted black instead. When I got it, the bridge was down and shoved under the tail piece, and tuning rod had fallen! I managed to get the tuning rod "in place" by stabbing it with an upholstery needle and hanger to set it (the little stick is full of stab wounds!). Then I managed to get the bridge up and the strings restrung when the loop holding the tailpiece in place snaps off, not once, but three times, making be have to reset the bridge and rod all over again after I fix it.

After all of that, I finally get it to a place where it holds the open strings in tune and makes a sound, when a fine tuner breaks! The plastic part that holds the string in place for one of my fine tuners snapped off! I can't find the piece of plastic, so regluing it isn't an option (I strongly doubt gluing would work, given the amount of force the reglued piece would have to withstand.) How hard is it to replace something like that?