Left Pic – Damage to the upper branch on a Yamaha Euphonium. The brace dented the tubing when the damage occurred. There’s no easy access to this area, without unsoldering major parts of the horn, and the brace can’t be re-soldered with the dent in there. Right Pic – I’ve soldered a sax strap ring [...]
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Left Pic – Crack in trumpet leadpipeRight Pic – Small piece of sheet brass cut to fabricate patch Left Pic – Patch cut to diamond shapeRight Pic – Patch annealed(heated red hot) to soften it for forming around leadpipe Left Pic – Patch soldered onRight Pic – All cleaned up, buffed and spot [...]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum rented our Baldwin Grand for their big fundraiser. Freddy Cole, Nat King Cole’s brother was the featured entertainer.
Left Pic – Finger button broken, leaving the broken threaded part in the stemRight Pic – Holding the valve in a valve lapping block so I can drill out broken piece Left Pic – I’m using a left twist drill bit(it cuts opposite of a normal bit) to begin to drill out the broken [...]
After rough cutting (with a belt sander) the feet of the bridge, I use this homemade jig to fine tune the radius on the bottom of the feet to match the contour of the top. After finishing the feet, I’ll contour the top and thin the bridge to it’s final shape.
3 Bach Trombones in for cleaning and servicing…Two 42′s and a 36. Don’t often have this many really nice horns in at one time.
Summer’s over…..:( We’re back to our normal operating hours Mon-Fri 10-5 Sat 9-12
On older plastic clarinets, it’s not unusual to find the Finger Ring Tone Holes are machined separately and glued in. Consequently, they fall out occasionally<<<just don’t lose them! You lose them, then you’re paying to have them re-made. Left Pic – Finger Tone Holes – OUTRight Pic – Finger Tone Holes – IN
Bass clarinet comes in from a school with a broken Left Hand Low F#/C# Lever. This type of break requires that the key be silver-soldered (or brazed). The key is held in a jig and heated red hot, then silver solder is used to connect the broken pieces back together. If done properly, the break [...]
Everett Spells, local sax player & teacher brought his Selmer Mark VII Tenor in for a neck cork replacement and some tweaking. It had lots of rattles and clanks(as most horns develop over time). Some felt, some cork, some oil, and some heat shrink and it’s much much quieter now. I also had to adjust [...]
