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.

Friday, January 13, 2012

Today marks the end of a successful first week back. I have switched to the brass side of the shop to concentrate on large brass including horn and trombone, but first a little review.








Here you can see my cornet bell ready to be fixed. I soldered the brace and buffed the bell in order to start working on the bell fold and removing the flare dents. Next will be the stem dents and the less visible bow dents. A practice patch to finish and I will have completed my review and be ready to start on horns.
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