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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.

Dan Schultz: http://thevillagetinker.com

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

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

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.

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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Jeff42150 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 6:42 am 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.