Brass Repair Services & Prices
BRASS REPAIR EXPERTS

When your brass instrument isn’t playing right, our repair shop can get it back to excellent playing condition. From routine cleaning and maintenance to more extensive repairs, our experienced technicians have the tools, training, and care to get your horn back in your hands quickly.

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What Ultrasonic Cleaning Includes:

• Disassembly of the instrument

• Ultrasonic cleaning of the body, rotors, slides, and valves

• Scratch brushing of rotors

• Replacement of discolored or worn felts, water key corks, and valve guides

• Cleaning of case

• Lubrication with long-lasting synthetic oils/greases and reassembly

• Light polishing of lacquered finishes

• Removal of minor reachable dents on the bell, as defined below:

  • Dents on the bell from the flare to the first crook, bow, or ferrule (we can show you what this is if you are unfamiliar)

  • Dents that can be removed by a mandrel, rod, or roller- NOT requiring ball-and-driver or MDRS

  • Sousaphone- detachable bell plus the receiver up until the ferrule connecting it to the first branch

  • The repairperson can do it in under 10 minutes

  • *Any dent work taking longer than this is not included in the cleaning price/job*​

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​Other services offered , beyond the routine ultrasonic cleaning:

• Cosmetic and playability-affecting dent removal for both "reachable" dents and larger dents in curved tubing (by estimate).

• Stuck slide removal to make playing in tune possible

• Valve and piston repair, eliminating sticky, sluggish, or noisy mechanics.

• Trombone slide alignment, straightening, and dent removal to improve ease of movement in the slide.

• Solder joint repair for broken connections.

• Replacement of broken or missing parts such as mouthpipes, waterkeys, mouthpiece receivers, finger buttons, valve stems, braces, etc.

• Case repair to keep your instrument protected during transport.

• Custom repairs for any other issues you’d like addressed or that affect functionality.

Please know that for work beyond the standard ultrasonic cleaning jobs, we bill based on parts and labor. We are happy to give you an estimate on repair costs at no fee, upon intake of the horn into our shop.