Musical Notes

What's on My Bench? A copy of the Getzen Gazette from 1967!

Things We Find In Cases: A Copy of the Getzen Gazette from 1967!

Welcome to another exciting episode of “Things I find in cases”! Today’s exciting find comes to you from the original case of a Getzen Severinson ...

What's on My Bench? King 2341 BBb Tuba

I’ve been super busy trying to get things done after our recent snowstorms, but things are getting back to normal now! Today we got a new shipment ...

What’s on My Bench? 2019 NAMM Show Fun!

I promised an update about our visit to the NAMM show, and here it is! It’s always exciting to see all the brand new gear at the show - everything...

What’s on My Bench? Early 70s Bach Model 37 Trumpet

Here you see a very nice Bach 37 from around 1970 or 1971. It was quite dirty and everything was stuck except the pistons, but it has cleaned up qu...

What’s on My Bench? 1947 Olds Recording Trumpet

What a beautiful day to share a beautiful Olds Recording with you all! This one is really in wonderful shape, and is nice and straight with just a ...

What’s on My Bench? Bach Mt. Vernon Alto Trombone

Here’s a cool little horn I finished up today - a Bach Mt. Vernon Model 6 alto trombone! This alto trombone was a conversion done on a regular Mod...

What's on My Bench? 1921 Conn 20A Flugelhorn

Today’s feature is a real gem - a gold plated, presentation engraved Conn 20A! I actually finished up this little guy last week, but had to make s...

What's on My Bench? 1970 Schilke B1

Happy Friday, and welcome to “What’s on my bench?”!!! One of the things I love be about my job is getting to work on horns like this one!! This pa...

Repair Solutions: Pad Modification

Background Recently at Quinn the Eskimo Brass and Winds, we received a Conn nickel plated bass saxophone to be put into playing condition for subs...

Colored Conn C Melody Saxophones

For a brief period of time in the 1920's, Conn offered colored enamel finish on their saxophones. While we have seen a few colored enamel altos, by...

Explorations in Unique Music

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don’t understand the language that you’re singing in, they still know good music w...

Searching for a Good Community Band

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already wit...