Tim Adelson spends his workdays repairing musical instruments for students across the Clark County School District. The reason he does it? He wants to ensure more students stay in music programs. “It ...

Kyra Hurlock used to fidget with her tenor saxophone when she played in her high school’s band. “There was a lot of sitting while other sections worked … because the tenor parts aren’t super difficult ...

Background: Puzon, 37, owner of Puzon`s Musical Instrument Repair in Lansing, says he has been involved in music as long as he can remember. Besides fixing broken instruments, he gives music lessons ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Have you ever wondered what happens to a flute, a trombone, or a violin when it goes kaput? Now introducing instrument repair technicians, or perhaps they should be called ...

At first glance, Mark Vandermark's office resembles a typical tool shed. Apart from a John Belushi Animal House poster, however, not many could recognize most of the tools hanging on the walls.

Three years ago, a tuba owned by the Mesa Unified School District was deemed unplayable by a repair store. Earlier this winter, that same instrument was used during a student concert at Mesa High ...

Maybe music education just wasn’t the right career path for Dakota Nealey. Partway into the music student’s third year at Coastal Carolina University near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Dakota realized ...

"I don't consider this coming to work. I consider it coming to play," says musical instrument repair technician Julie Jurgenson, who has been employed with Schmitt Music in Rochester for 23 years.

Julie Jurgenson blesses the horns down in Africa and leaves the rain to Toto. She’s been working as a music instrument repair technician for 36 years, and she owns JJ’s Horn Clinic, a band instrument ...