Welcome to the brass musical instrument repair page!. We hope you will find the following pages both informative and entertaining.The information contained here is for the technician and musician alike.If you have any input for future additions, send us your ideas.

• ROTARY VALVE REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT
• INSTRUMENT REPAIR SUPPLIERS
• SOLDERING TIPS AND PROCEDURES
• BURNISHING
• WORK HOLDING MANDRELS
• WORK HOLDING MANDRELS,CONT.
• RAGGING, CHEMICAL CLEANING, SPOT PLATING
• PISTON VALVE PROBLEMS
• BUFFING AND RAGGING
• FRACTION,DECIMAL,METRIC CONVERSION CHART
• VALVES THAT "HANG"
• FORMULAS
• EQUATIONS/CONVERSIONS
• PISTON VALVE ALIGNMENT
• TROMBONE SLIDE ALIGNMENT

There are many more topics to be covered in the future. Your ideas are greatly appreciated! In the mean time,check out the Questions and Answers Page.

Double Bell Euphonium Project File(522K)

This file contains an excerpt from Dr. Edward Malletts paper on double bell euphoniums, namely, our joint effort to construct a viable, working double bell euphonium.

Rebuilding Badly Worn or New Piston Valves(4mb)

This file contains a description of the process involved in rebuilding piston valves. There are several quicktime movies to demonstrate the process. If you need the QiuckTime Plugin please click here

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St. Louis Woodwind and Brasswind

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*For information on customizing or repairing any brass musical instrument see-
Michigan Musical Instrument Service
Check out Works In Progress at MMIS and Completed Work

Great Places to Visit-

Musical Instrument Inventions

Bach Trumpet Museum

The R. Jones Trumpet Page

Links to Sites of Interest

Special Thanks to-

Tim Powers(Graphics)

Gerhard Fries(Computing)

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