Southside Chicago's Trusted Brass Instrument Repair and Parts Manufacturing Shop.

Repair and Restoration

Full Service Cleaning

  • Disassembly of entire instrument
  • Ultrasonic cleaning
  • Valves oiled and slides greased
  • Piston instruments reassembled with new felts & corks
  • Rotary instruments reassembled with new bumpers & strings
  • All piston and rotary instruments are given a precision valve alignment
  • Water key corks and springs as needed
  • All instruments are hand-polished as a final step
  • All instruments given a final play-test

Dent Work

  • All necessary equipment/tooling available to fix dents of all shapes and sizes.

Soldering

  • Repair and replace old or worn out solder joints.

Parts Replacement

  • Repair and replace lead pipes, braces, valves and more as needed. Custom parts fabrication available

Custom Work

  • Custom parts fabrication/fitting work available