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Hi All,
I know there are a number of professional repair technicians (guys who repair band instruments for a living) on this board. For many (not all), there slow season is beginning. I am finally coming to the point of completing a load of euphoniums and hope to be sending them out to plate in a week or so. Anyway, I was sitting at the bench today preparing to mount the mouth-pipes on the before mentioned instruments and a thought jumped into my head. '' What are the other repair folks on the board working on?" Anything fun, cool or just simply weird? So, Joe, Lee, Matt, Mr. Schultz and the rest of you who go by your assorted aliases, what are you working on and what is your big side project?

Me: just trying to keep my head down and complete the projects for Dale, Dave, Bob, Ron, Richard, Mike, Donald, Andy....

I hope to complete the restoration of a soprano sarrusaphone this summer. WOOHOO!

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Daniel C. Oberloh
Oberloh Woodwind and Brass Works
Saving the world, one horn at a time...

There's no slow-down here! It's contest time in Indiana and I've had so many emergency 'walk-ins' that I can't even get to work on my own stuff. I bought eight King 1240 (or 2340) tubas about a month ago and have only managed to find time to take two of 'em apart for dentwork.

Interesting??? we'll, I have a set of concert chimes in the shop that I'm building a new wheeled base for. Does that count for interesting? Oh yeah... I have a pair of 100 year old French acetylene headlamps that I've been trying to finish for the last year... along side of some sort of brass automobile noise gadget that drives off the flywheel! Seems like just about anything brass makes it's way to my shop. I restored a silver tea set for a lady just after Christmas. Taking dents out of stuff is good!

It doesn't really take much to keep a one-man show busy!