EAST PROVIDENCE – "I want your old band instruments," states the sign in front of an unassuming ranch house in suburban Rumford. "Any condition, including parts." Inside, Gaston Malloy has spent the ...

We’re fixing a problem that has existed for decades, in more or less one fell swoop.” It takes many musicians and instruments to make a marching band or orchestra. And it takes a coordinated effort ...

For Avery McDaniel, the back-to-school season is the busiest time of year for his musical instrument repair and rental shop in Beloit, Wisconsin. McDaniel Music Repair’s business renting and repairing ...

KEARNEY — Jeff Stelling doesn’t flinch when asked about his instrument repair business. “If it’s broken, we can fix it,” he said. Since founding Stelling Brass & Winds in 1994, Stelling has repaired ...

As a kid growing up in Michigan, Tom Stewart always had easy access to a set of drums. His father, Carl, had learned to play the skins at age 6 — when the Big Band style of music that would come to ...

Rocky Mountain Music Repair is busy this time of year collecting instruments for their annual School Secret Santa Instrument ...

Ernest Brong of North Canton turned a hobby into his business in the 1930s and began repairing musical instruments. A little more than a decade later, he was well-known in Stark County for helping ...

The stories of hardship, dedication and a love for music in the Oscar-nominated short documentary “The Last Repair Shop” — about the unseen heroes servicing musical instruments for Los Angeles Unified ...