#How to fix a saxophone neck strap full#

When you put a mouthpiece into your trumpet, there is a space between the end of the mouthpiece and the lead pipe inside of the mouthpiece receiver. Posted in Repair, Woodwinds Repairs | Tagged band instrument repair, saxophone repair, woodwind repair | Leave a reply The Beast Look at the picture and don’t say I didn’t warn you. There’s nothing wrong with rental shops if you want to rent an instrument, but if you want quality repairs, go to a dedicated repair shop. Now this isn’t always absolutely the case there are some stores that rent instruments that actually have good repair departments, but generally, you’re going to run into a bunch of hacks if you go to a store that derives the majority of it’s profit from rentals. A word of advice: If you need work done on your horn and you care about quality repairs, please stay away from stores that do school rentals. This is why you don’t get repairs done by people who don’t know or don’t care about what they’re doing. It looks like they just took a post off a silver horn and soldered it onto the sax without bothering to fit it whatsoever to the key or rod. Apparently they needed to replace a post. So here’s a Yamaha 52 Bari sax that came in from a school who had previously had work done by Music and Arts. Poor poor saxophone, what have they done to you?! Make sure your repair checks when you bring your horn in, especially if it’s a vintage horn. So if you have a saxophone, a Martin for instance, with soldered on tone holes and you have a mysterious leak that you just can’t seem to pin down, there’s a good chance that the solder joint between the tone hole and the body has a leak somewhere. I expect to finish the job tomorrow by lunch time and I’ll be glad to be finished with this one.

#How to fix a saxophone neck strap full#

Thankfully I’m doing this bass at my full time job instead of at my shop so the couple of days this work is taking me isn’t on my dime. Today I started replacing most of the pads the horn really needs an overhaul but the band doesn’t want to shell out the cash so I was told to ‘make it play’. So yesterday I was going around every tone hole and filling in all the missing solder. How the horn played a single note at this point is beyond explanation. Pretty much every tone hole has big gaps where the soldered has crumbled away between the body and the tone hole. Let me tell you, this sax has been a nightmare. This one (the one on the chair in the picture) has soldered tone holes. So when they come into the shop, they are in really bad shape. These guys are a tad rough with their horns and the bass saxes the have are pretty much all in the century old category. Somewhere in that mess are a few string bands, also drunk and dressed all fancy. The Mummers parade is on New Years day and is basically a bunch of men dressed up in feathers and sequins dancing down the street stone drunk. The Mummers are a big deal in Philadelphia and boy do they love their saxophones. Being that I have the fortune (or misfortune depending on the day) of living and working right outside of Philadelphia, I’ve worked on more bass saxophones in a few years than most repair people will in a career.