What a wonderful year 2024 will be!

Welcome To Our New Space
Vintage and Pre-Loved Instrument Spotlight
Trombone King 3B Repair Spotlight
New and Interesting Products
A New Phone Number – 022 467 1980

These occasional newsletters are a wonderful process for us to reflect over the past year and anticipate the next. Many of you will have visited our new space, and hopefully been offered a coffee. Dave and I are grateful every day to work in – and welcome you to – such a great new space. Come visit for a coffee and chat! We’re at 320 Tinakori Road, just over the road from the last place.

Double Take Selmer Mark VI’s

We have a bunch of highly desirable vintage and cool instruments in stock currently.

Selmer Mark VI Alto Sax – The most immaculate example we’ve seen
Selmer Mark VI Tenor Sax – Fully repadded and also in amazing condition
Yanagisawa T902 Tenor Sax – Immaculate and ready for its new home
Yamaha YAS480 Alto Sax– Absolutely like new
Yanagisawa late 80’s Alto – Needs some love but could be a great horn
Yamaha D Trumpet – Great condition
Yamaha YSL-695 Jazz Trombone – Need an upgrade horn?
Hans Hoyer Meister Double French Horn – Horns are so hard to find
Pearl PFA-206 Alto Flute – Rarely do we see these come up
18k gold plated flute – Jupiter Di Medici – a great step-up flute

Trombone King 3B Repair Spotlight

On the workbench we see some amazing instruments! Each have their quirks and aspects that often require attention. On this old girl the tubing that receives the slide, and consequently gets a lot of torque, had let go. It has obviously been like this for some time. If the break is not fresh the old solder is usually contaminated and needs to be completely removed before resoldering. Soldering can be compared to painting in that prep is key to a great final job. Once prepped and resoldered it is like new, airtight and once again contributing to the strength of the horn.