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Is there a fairly good instrument repair person in the Denver, CO or Scottsbluff, NE area that I can trust my tuba to? I have a few stuck slides on my PT4P that I had in storage for about a year and I am also seeing some red stuff on a couple of slides and I am scared poopless. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Sou

Flesher Hinton
3936 Tennyson St.
Denver CO 80212
303-433-8891
800-225-8742
fax: 303-455-7062

I've been using these guys for years and years. I had my tuba and tenor trombone in for repairs and chem cleans with in the last year and they've always taken good care of me. The service manager for the repair dept. is Barry; you couldn't ask for a nicer more competent tech, IMO.

SoundMinistries wrote:Flesher Hinton
3936 Tennyson St.
Denver CO 80212
303-433-8891
800-225-8742
fax: 303-455-7062

I've been using these guys for years and years. I had my tuba and tenor trombone in for repairs and chem cleans with in the last year and they've always taken good care of me. The service manager for the repair dept. is Barry; you couldn't ask for a nicer more competent tech, IMO.

Yup, what he said!

A little bit of a drive, but Jeff Stelling in Kearney is AMAZING.

I have taken many horns both my own and other people's to Bill Ford at Flesher-Hinton in Denver. Bill has always been very fair with me and done fantastic work every time - be it on my 2 tubas, trombones and even German hunting horns. I live in Montana and I'm only in Denver for a couple of days at a time and if I call ahead and set it up he can get the work done while I am in town. As for dents removed for free I have never had Bill do any work for me that I didn't ask him to do and although he is very fair I have never had him do anything for free (darn). The shop at Flesher-Hinton is fairly large so you need to specify that you want Bill to work on your horn and try to talk to him if you can. I know many professionals in Denver, Colorado, Wyoming, and even Montana that will only let Bill do their repair work. He's a great guy and my horns always sound better after he works on them.
Good luck, Phil

djwesp wrote:A little bit of a drive, but Jeff Stelling in Kearney is AMAZING.

mhealy wrote:I agree with Wes. I take my horns to Jeff Stelling in Kearney (Stelling Brass and Winds) and am always impressed with his work. He explains everything that he does to my horn (and why!) and his work is always reliable.

Kearney is a heck of a drive from around Scottsbluff/Denver, but I'll vouch for Jeff, too. I gave him an old King contrabass bugle and said just, "Clean it up and make it look good," and I got it back in nearly-new condition.

He's also the guy who recently developed a one-handed sax for one of the professors at U of NE - Kearney.

http://onehandwinds.unk.edu/
http://www.mv-voice.com/morgue/2005/200 ... dsax.shtml

Thanks, I live in Lusk, Wyoming (anybody know where that one is?) and finding a pretty good repair person with much of a reputation in the area is difficult to say the least. I know that there are a few people in Casper, WY that are competent repair people but they usually don't work on professional equipment for major, or possibly major, repairs.

I have a sister in Denver and I am within driving distance to Scottsbluff, NE so those are the places I thought I would start.

I will take it to one or the other of the places y'all recommended it will just depend on which place I get to first.

Thanks again,
Sou

Leland wrote: He's also the guy who recently developed a one-handed sax for one of the professors at U of NE - Kearney.

http://onehandwinds.unk.edu/
http://www.mv-voice.com/morgue/2005/200 ... dsax.shtml

I think the grant work is going on right now. Expect to see a lot more than one handed saxes. They are also in the process of designing a set of all woodwinds that facilitate the one handed player. He also does low brass conversions, from right to left handed.

If you haven't seen Jeff's work, you are missing out. People send him stuff from all over the world, he has a large workshop, is affordable, and a heck of a craftsman.

Sometimes location isn't everything and until I saw it, I didn't believe it.

djwesp wrote:If you haven't seen Jeff's work, you are missing out. People send him stuff from all over the world, he has a large workshop, is affordable, and a heck of a craftsman.

Sometimes location isn't everything and until I saw it, I didn't believe it.

Now you've just about got me talked into making the drive. Sounds almost too good to pass up.

Sou

Captain Sousie wrote:

djwesp wrote:If you haven't seen Jeff's work, you are missing out. People send him stuff from all over the world, he has a large workshop, is affordable, and a heck of a craftsman.

Sometimes location isn't everything and until I saw it, I didn't believe it.

Now you've just about got me talked into making the drive. Sounds almost too good to pass up.

Sou

It is a long drive for the type of work you are getting done, but you should stop by at some point (i'm sure you're on I-80 at some point, as it is the only way to get out of your hole, going east)

djwesp wrote:It is a long drive for the type of work you are getting done, but you should stop by at some point (i'm sure you're on I-80 at some point, as it is the only way to get out of your hole, going east)

Agreed, if I did get it done there I would have a couple of other mods done as I have been wanting to do them but haven't had the money and the inclination at the same time. I also might be going that way for spring break to visit some friends.