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.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Today I built a first valve slide assembly.



First the parts.




Add the solder.




Then buff.

These parts were kindly donated to the school by the Yamaha Corporation, and this project would not have been possible without their help. The crooks for all student line Yamaha trumpets are the same size so I was able to use a Yamaha trumpet that the school owns for alignment and to hold the pieces while they were assembled.
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