*** I want to welcome our new guest writer, Bree Eckel. Bree is an instrument repair tech in training. She works primarily on clarinets and flutes. She also cleans and tests brass. This is her first blog post here on msquill, and I’m thrilled she’s agreed to write for us. She’s also my 13 year old daughter. Welcome Bree! We…
A couple weeks ago, I went into the music store in the next town to buy reeds and find out why the repair tech had not been answering my texts. Background, several months ago, I contacted the music store and asked about the possibility of learning instrument repair from their tech. I explained that I’m learning to repair instruments so…
If you had told me one year ago that my living room, and den would both be half buried in music instruments, I’d have have thought you were a fool. But… I would have been wrong. For the past 18 months or so, my family and I have been buying a flute, clarinet or sax from an auction, thrift store…