Michael Fahey


This blog is intended to document my time spent studying Band Instrument Repair at Minnesota State College in Red Wing, MN. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Saxophone Performance from Armstrong Atlantic State University, I decided to follow my passion, and focus on restoring antique and vintage musical instruments. As you can imagine there is no one school or program that can teach all of the different facets of such a discipline but the BIR Program is a great place to start. I intend to supplement this blog with more than just photographs of the instruments and look forward to sharing the research that I uncover along the way.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011














Today was my first time using the buffing wheels. Here you can see the before and after of a trombone bell. We were only allowed to use yellow rouge for the entire process but this is by far the most dramatic difference that I have seen in an instrument at this point in the program.
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Monday, August 29, 2011


My first time seeing Minnesota, after several days of driving! This is crossing the Mississippi River from Wisconsin. What a beautiful state.
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