Friday By Request: Band Instrument Repair, What Is It Like?

[@tracygittins6343]

Thanks for your remarks about older people. I just turned sixty. I hope to study at Red Wing and use my skills in Bolivia, where I'll retire. There are LOTS of trumpets and baritones down there, but hardly anyone to repair them.

[@chriskowalski7038]

Thanks so much for answering my questions...Love your channel...

[@sylvestervaldez3459]

Thanks for the information

[@LilyJaneH]

Thank you so much for your channel! I have a question. I have a German style rotary valve oval baritone. It came to me in decent shape, but the whole time that I have owned it, I have had a problem. When I try to play F2 with 4th valve, the sound almost cuts off completely. The air still goes through, but I have to fight to get any sound to resonate. The other problem that I have noticed is that when I try to play pedal Bb1, unless I really work to make the sound drop, it comes out as a sharp Eb2. I have re-corked and ported the valves because I thought that both issues might be related to an air leak in my valve cluster, and while it helped, neither problem is gone. Any advice would be wonderful. Thank you for everything you do for this community.
Kyle

[@davemiller7633]

Kyle I highly recommend shipping your horn to Art. His work is superb.

[@12012channel]

I would imagine instrument or any other repair to be physically demanding.