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.

Our Shop

I thought it might be nice to show some photographs of the shop for my friends and family. This is where I am spending my days.




 This is the Brass Lab. That's my work bench with the arrow, Mom.



 A Normal shop table to most but it is always guaranteed to contain something interesting.



 This is the Buffing Room. Machines on the left are for cut buffing and finish buffing is on the right.

 This is the soldering bench located in the main lab.
  


These two above are of the common shop between the Woodwind and Brass Wind Labs. This is where the large machinery like the lathes are located.


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