| Yes, Greg -- but it is an "on-going process" -- I will never know what I would like to know about band instrument repair. My business-partner is a prominent luthier (string-instrument repairer/builder, who has restored legenday instruments that are in the Country Music Hall-of-Fame Museum, and has worked on Keith Richards' ("The Rolling Stones") guitars. My wife is a grad of Red Wing Technical College Band Instrument Repair school, just East of you, on the Mississippi. Not surprisingly, most of our work is on guitars, and my experience goes back many years. We also work on woodwinds, percussion, instrument cases, amplifiers, P.A. systems. We are presently expanding into a much larger facility, as we formerly had a small "home" shop. I bought-out a West Coast brass and woodwind repair shop, and I still have to inventory everything and find a place to put it.
Regards,
Robert Rowe |