Custom bass tb repair midwest

[Jeff42150]

New guy here: any suggestions for some custom bass tb re-manufacturing for a cheapo bass TB. Hope not to violate forum rules; heard of a guy near Ramsey Indiana that does custom tuba work and might be an answer for a problem I have with this horn.

[hrender]

Dan Schultz: http://thevillagetinker.com

Martin Wilk: http://www.mawvalve.com/index.htm

[2nd tenor]

A visit to and post on the ‘trombone chat’ forum might well help the OP:

https://trombonechat.com/index.php?sid= ... 37ff86ea35

For reasons that I don’t know The Trombone Forum went down, but it’s apparently archived here and it might be worth a search: https://trombonechat.com/viewforum.php? ... 13c85542b7

[bloke]

It seems to me that “Midwest“ can involve a trip up to 500 miles in one direction.

Surely you are not looking to alter the playing slide, but something about the bell section. It’s probably cheaper to bubble wrap a bell section (only) really well and mail it in a carton than to drive 250 miles + 250 miles (or - again - more+more miles) to take your trombone somewhere… and then have the person tell you that they can’t alter it in one or two days…
…or am I missing some details?

I guess I’m suggesting that you could mail it just about anywhere, rather than looking for someplace to what you could drive in one day.

[Jeff42150]

Update on the Berkley bass TB issues: heading south tomorrow to Palmyra, Indiana to drop the horn off with M.A. Wilk's Brass, LLC. Oddly enough, I work in that county for Harrison County EMS and didn't know that this service/business was in Palmyra, just made an ambo run up there this past Sunday! It's a small crossroad town on US 150 (the old Buffalo Trace) and SR 135. By the sounds of things, there's a chance that he can help make a poorly-manufactured instrument into something workable for a beginning bass tb student.

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[arpthark]

Update on the Berkley bass TB issues: heading south tomorrow to Palmyra, Indiana to drop the horn off with M.A. Wilk's Brass, LLC. Oddly enough, I work in that county for Harrison County EMS and didn't know that this service/business was in Palmyra, just made an ambo run up there this past Sunday! It's a small crossroad town on US 150 (the old Buffalo Trace) and SR 135. By the sounds of things, there's a chance that he can help make a poorly-manufactured instrument into something workable for a beginning bass tb student.

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I feel remiss that I never made the short jog over to Martin's shop when I lived in Louisville. I'm sure he'll do ya right.