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.

Monday, September 19, 2011

This bell fold is far from being done but I want to go ahead and post some pictures of the progress that has all ready taken place.



The picture above shows the fold, which stretches all the way around the bell, making this more of a restoration than just a quick fix. There was no reference with which to rely upon in order to know when the bell had returned to the original shape.

After several trips between the bell mandrel and the roller it is possible to see the bell starting to lie flat. I still need to spend a good deal of time with the burnisher in order to restore the surface to being as smooth as possible and will update as soon as that happens.

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