Philosophy
Saxophone repair craft is about understanding and correcting the mechanical failures that are obstacles to each musician’s creative freedom. The joy you experience when those barriers are removed sustains my practice of this craft; A craft which exists at the intersection of mechanics and history, in the service of art.
When I’ve done my work well, not only have I made beauty accessible to musicians, I have also preserved the history of a musical instrument steeped in decades of stories and art.

​The majority of the horns I’ve restored were manufactured anywhere between 1900 and 1965. A horn made in 1927 may have spent over 80 years in the hands of musicians. For a brief moment in each horn’s story, I am responsible for restoring it to a better condition than when it was new.  If every engineer and musician in the life of a horn were able to see my work, I hope they would be pleased knowing the horn is once again mechanically perfect and will provide an artistic outlet for many more decades. I restore and preserve vintage saxophones in service to the past and the future - the engineers who designed the horn, the musicians that played it, all the craftspeople that ever worked on it, and all those who will follow after me.