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 Re: What Training is Required to be Considered a Professional Clarinet Repairer?
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2006-08-17 16:31

I'm largely self taught, I knew how to take bassoons, saxes, clarinets and oboes apart since I was 11, then I started working in my local music shop part time doing woodwind repairs when I was nearly 15 back in mid 1987, and when given the opportunity to work for Howarths back in 1998 I took it.

I think you do need to have the aptitude for the work, and an eye for neatness - but that doesn't mean you can't learn these things.

Best start with clarinets as they're pretty easy to work on - and progress from there.

But I don't do all that much work on flutes - I'd service them and do minor work, but I'd rather let flute specialists do more extensive work as they're more tooled up for doing flutes than I am (and they'll have all the various thicknesses and types of flute pads and specialist tools I don't have) - I prefer to specialise on oboes, but I still work on clarinets, saxes and piccolos.

I never thought I'd still have a career in finishing or repairing instruments right now when I was 15, but it seems to have happened without too much snap decision making on my part (only when I asked if I could work in my local shop when I was 14, then more recently being offered and taking the finishing job at Howarths) - a natural progression rather than taking on a new job and having to be trained up from scratch.

There are several employees at Howarth that have come into working for the company as keywork mounters or finishers with no prior experience of woodwind instruments at all, and with the right training they're turning out excellent quality work.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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