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, April 23, 2012


We started oboe today and as always there are plenty of interesting things floating around the school. The first picture shows a single reed mouthpiece for the oboe.





The next two photographs show a metal Graslites Oboe by Kohlert and Sons. While it is not the type of instrument that I will typically encounter, it does serve a purpose in illustrating just how small the bore is in an oboe. Because the bore is so small and the wooden bodies so thick, oboes are prone to cracking. The moisture content of the wood on the inside of the instrument is more likely to be higher than the wood on the outside of the instrument.
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