Before and after photos
Alarm siren horn
After stripping old paint, prior to dent removal Dents removed, brace added for strength and fresh paint.
Repaired horn mounted on siren base
Olds Mendez trumpet finger hook reproduction. Original hook on the left, new hook made by The Broken Note on right.
Plastic clarinet body center tenon repair; before and after.
Broken plastic bodies are usually cheaper to replace than to repair, but this particular lime green clarinet is no longer made by the manufacturer and replacement parts are no longer available. Often broken plastic bodies can be epoxied back together with much success, but there was simply too much missing material in this case to repair it in that fashion. The new black tenon you see on the right extends 1.5" into the body to add strength to the tenon. The body was machined out to accept the new tenon graft, the new tenon was made and epoxied in, then the new tenon was machined out to match the original inside bore of the clarinet. The tone holes covered by the tenon graft were drilled open again, resulting in a repair that is seamless - minus the color difference. Tenon repairs such as this are normally reserved for wooden bodied clarinets as replacement joints are much more expensive.
Clarinet bell crack repair (wooden bell).
Tuba bell section prior to dent work... Tuba bell section after dent work
Note the slight scarring in the lacquer - this is typical of instruments this badly damaged and can be buffed out if a relacquer is desired.
This trumpet bell-to-receiver brace was soldered at another local shop. The owner wasn't pleased with the results, so he came in and asked us to redo it and clean it up...
We aligned it back to its proper position, resoldered the brace, then lightly buffed and spot lacquered the area.
This is a tuba bottom bow that took the brunt of a nasty fall off of a stage riser. It was a prime suspect for using the latest dent removal technology that we employ here at The Broken Note.
As you can see below, the bottom bow guard has been removed and was later straightened by hand. Next, a powerful magnet was utilized to remove the dent. These magnets are strong enough to break fingers, disable pacemakers, permanently erase your hard drive and send a dent hammer flying from a workbench 1 and 1/2 feet through the air and into the back of your hand (the voice of experience).
In the past, the entire bottom bow would have had to be removed from the horn, the dents removed by hand, and then soldered back on. Removing dents such as these with magnets takes half the time and produces a quality job, if done properly by someone with experience (do NOT try this at home! You WILL injure yourself!).
After the photo below was snapped the straightened guard was soldered back on, some other minor repairs were made, and the customer took it home to practice before a final photo could be taken. He was very pleased and eager to go home and test out his freshly repaired, cleaned and adjusted tuba.