Some daily repairs at Music and Arts, Guitar Center Distribution Center, Brownsburg, Indiana

Here are some of the basic tools I used in repairing the two trombone tuning crooks in the previous two videos.

Here is an extraction of the tip of a cleaning snake and the drilling of a water key hole on a Blessing French Horn in F.

Play conditioning a student trombone.

Reattaching a detached trumpet mouthpipe.

I had to disassemble in order to straighten the s-braces.

As I was disassembling, the upper inner tube of the main tuning slide detached from the crook revealing a broken solder joint.  It was like an old house, a surprise around every corner and behind every wall:-)

Here's another rattled trumpet that came across my bench.  Bent and twisted, detached s-braces and a snapped bell-to-second-casing cross brace.

Here is some dent work I did on a student trumpet who's operator obviously wanted to play drums:-)

Crinkled bell throat smoothened.

Practicing my new metal lathe skills.

My first attempt at making valve caps for my Jupiter XO 1600I.

Leak Light for Woodwind repair made in class.

Making a Trumpet Mouth Pipe

After the 'brass tube to be mouth pipe' has been annealed (heated to make brass tube pliable) and the proper steel mandrel has been chosen, the steel mandrel is lubed with Murphy's Oil soap.

The steel mandrel is inserted into the brass tube.

Now that the 'brass tube to be mouth pipe' has the steel mandrel inserted into it, it's time to lube the outside of the brass tube with more a coating of Murphy's Oil Soap.

Ready for tube drawing on the Draw Bench.

Now using the Draw Bench and a steel cylinder, we separate the tube from the steel mandrel.