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How to Care for Your Clarinet

Before Playing Always wash your hands and brush your teeth before playing your instrument. Dirt and oil from your hands can tarnish and damage th...

How to Care for Your Piston Brass Instrument

Congratulations on the purchase of your new piston valve instrument! To get the most out of your new horn, follow these easy care instructions: ...

How to Care for Your Flute

If you are new to the flute, this article is for you! This guide details how to care for your instrument. Most wind instruments contain numerous n...

Making a New Key Foot/Hinge Tube for the low D Key of a Selmer Alto Sax

I had to make a new key foot/hinge tube for the low D key of a Selmer alto sax.  The one that was on the instrument was not original, and was mangl...

What's on Brad's Bench? A 39XXX Selmer Paris Super Balanced Action Tenor Saxophone!

This is perhaps the nicest Selmer Super Balanced Tenor we have ever seen. The Super Balanced is possibly the most sought after of Selmer tenors...

What's on Marissa's Bench? A Leblanc Paperclip Contrabass Clarinet.

Just completed a full overhaul on this Leblanc Paperclip Contrabass Clarinet SN 1985. It showed up in pretty bad shape as you can see from the bef...

What's on Carlo's Bench? A 5 Digit Selmer Mark VI Tenor.

Just finished a massive overhaul on this gorgeous 5 digit Selmer MKVI. As you can see from the pictures, it was in pretty dire condition; I think i...

What's New? Edgware Care Products!

Hey, Friends! We are pleased to announce that we are now a dealer for Edgware care products! These products are naturally derived and in recyclabl...

Jackson Plays the YBS-62 Baritone Saxophone

Marissa Playing a Selmer Paris Privilege 65BL

What's on Marissa's Bench? A 1983 Buffet R13 Clarinet!

This Buffet R13 Bb Clarinet was made in 1983 and was in a very sorry state. When it got to my bench it was covered in mold and rust. I gave it a t...

What's on TJ's Bench? A 1980s Silver Besson Sovereign Model 968 Euphonium

A lot of TLC went into the glow up of this Besson Sovereign! This was my first extensive work on "knuckle" dents, which was a fun, albeit diffi...