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We are dedicated to providing comprehensive, high-quality education to help you succeed in the instrument repair industry. Our reputation over 18 years proves that! Our instructors bring years of real-world experience, and our curriculum is designed to ensure you leave with the skills needed to excel in your chosen repair discipline. Let us help you turn your passion for music into a rewarding career.
Full Time Student: 5 months per discipline (Brass, Woodwinds, or Strings). This option gives you all the training you need for each group of instruments plus the additional lab time over the weeks it takes to complete each discipline.
Part Time Student: 10 months per discipline (Brass, Woodwinds, or Strings), morning or afternoon classes. This option give you all the training you need for each group of instruments plus the additional hands on practice over the weeks it takes to complete each discipline.
Power Course: an intensive 5 day course. You choose the instrument or instruments you want to study. You can come for one or more courses!
Tool Kits: on campus students use our tools and supplies during courses, but tool kits are available for purchase if desired.
We offer fundamental courses in an online format: Brass, Woodwinds, Orchestral Strings, Acoustic and Electric Guitar as well as Band Director’s Pro Basics Courses. With a mix of 4K teaching videos, one on one video coaching and mandatory hands on repair work, you can learn exceptional instrument repair technique online. Fill out the Student Application to get started!
Tool Kits: online students must purchase a tool kit to have the necessary items for your course as well as acquire a project instrument to use. Contact us for current pricing of tool kits.
This course covers the basics of brass repair, cleaning, valve alignment, soft soldering, dent removal, correct fit and function of parts, nomenclature, spot lacquering and spot plating, rotor assembly and tying, and slide work overview
In this course you will learn techniques of flute disassembly, tenon fitting, head cork repair, key fitting, dent removal, padding, tone hole leveling, regulation corks, flute family nomenclature, care of metal finishes, straightening body, alignment, spring replacement, and play testing.
Plastic and Resin are taught. In this course you will learn proper clarinet disassembly techniques, corking of tenons, proper key fitting, padding, key corking, regulation/adjusting, and nomenclature. You will also learn various clarinet maintenance and repair skills, such as key straightening, and spring replacement.
This course will cover proper saxophone maintenance and disassembly techniques, corking of neck, proper key fitting, padding, key corking, regulation/adjusting, nomenclature, key straightening, spring replacement, and play testing.
On Campus Only. In this course you will learn oboe maintenance skills, such as padding, corking, adjustments, key fitting, and more as it applies to oboes. This repair class will finish with the student completing an overhaul of an oboe.
This course covers more advanced clarinet repair and maintenance topics, such as tenon and socket repair, graphite banding, reviewing of pinning, undercutting tone holes, tone hole replacement, chimney replacement, and mouthpiece refacing
In this guitar maintenance course you will learn to diagnose, set up, and adjust acoustic, electric and bass guitars including truss rod adjustments, nut & saddle regulations, bridge adjustments for intonation, and replacements as well as entry level crack repair and finish touch ups, and entry level guitar wiring.
This course covers re-fret jobs, fret leveling and dressing, fingerboard leveling, and radiusing.
In this course you will learn the fundamentals of string repair. This includes bridge cutting, and repair, crack repair, finish touch up, peg fitting, fingerboard repair and setting, neck setting, nut and button repair, and bow rehair.
For the director that needs to be a “MASH” unit for repairs in their school, this is your course. If on campus, You will spend three days on woodwinds–clarinet, flute, saxophone–and two days on brass fundamentals. Online, each discipline is divided into 1 course each (flute, clarinet, brass and saxophone).
On Campus Only. This is an advanced continuing education course customized for you. If you would like to learn advanced repairs on a specific instrument or learn instrument repair for something not listed in our other classes, this is the course for you. Details for this course will be designed by school agent, instructor, and student.