Artisan Winds NM

I'm not sure this was helping the F #, but it does make a cool dragon eye pic!

Busy week! Custom fabrication adding a whisper key lock to a nice old Schreiber Bassoon! Prepping a Miyazawa to order stabilizers and Straubinger pads for a CMR. Rebuilding this beat up school bari sax. Bench cat pic for tax.

Spent yesterday and today providing emergency repairs at the NMMEA Allstate Music Festival. Helped at least 10 players. Thrilled to do this service for the music community.

This week is a CMR (complete mechanical restoration) with Straubinger pads on this nice Miyazawa BR-602RHC #

Last week these 2 Miyazawa flutes and a Powell Sonare PS-705 were on the bench. The Miyazawa 202RHC # which a drop (moderately bent body, pushed in posts) and is for one of the EPSO flautists. The Miyazawa 401RHC # was assessed and touched up (poor buddy needs a rebuild!). The nice Powell PS-705 (not pictured) needed a good ol' fashioned COA.

Great bench time this week!
Wrapped up a refurb on an Olds/Schreiber bassoon, pro regulation and clean up on this gorgeous Powell Conservatory 9k Aurumite flute, a COA on a Fox Renard 222, and then a COA with structural work on a Selmer Paris 67 Privilege Low C bass clarinet.

Fox Contrabassoon on the bench today. Happy client. Happy tech! Beautiful instrument!

I'm just a flute tech nerd, flute tech nerding!

What can 16 years of deferred maintenance do to your flute rods? A lot of rust! (This is a school fleet instrument).