Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2015-12-22 21:45
I'm sure I don't have to tell you, but repair people in NYC, Manhattan especially, will charge you top dollar for their work. This is not to disparage a tradeperson's work by virtue of zip code, but rather to say that the price per sq foot of shop space varies drastically, as you must know, by zip code, and those expenses have to be incurred by clients.
Would NYC area extend to places just outside the city, like Southern Westchester Co., NY (Yonkers), Bergan Co., NJ (Berganfield), or Central-Western Nassau Co., NY (Mineola)? Or to rephrase, need you rely solely on mass transit to get to a repair tech?
If not, then, respectfully, Heidi Wolfgang in Yonkers, Dan Sagi in Bergenfield, and Mark Kasten in Mineola are excellent. I've used all 3, and they are all extremely competent and nice people use to fixing high end horns, and accomodating professional's needs. John Moses, an extremely well known NYC musician who you may know or have heard of, and a long time fixture on this bboard, introduced me to Dan once.
Heidi: heidioboerepair@weebly.com
Dan: dan@456music.com, 201-385-5800
Mark: http://shop.weinermusic.com/Testimonials.asp
Good luck. (Heidi's performance focus is oboe. Hence the name in her email address. But she can practically take apart a "Buffet" (or Selmer, or whatever woodwind), and put it back together while not only blindfold, but entertaining you with stories while you wait, and while on the phone with a professional's urgent repair needs. Her clients are her friends. She's Interlochen repair trained.
Dan is the finest craftsman woodworker I know. He can do the basics and he can do the magic both brilliantly. Impossible repairs; simple fixes: he is the man. He is self taught from when he'd fix his music school's instruments gratis--just to tinker--and I consider him, quite literally a genius at woodwind repair--although from his easy manner, you'd know he doesn't consider himself one.
Mark is a mench. I can't visit Weiner Music without him getting up and shaking my hand. People send him "horns" from all over the world to repair. He is "Ponte" trained, as some of the older folk like me will remember Ponte Music, a fixture on what was once The Musicians Block in NYC (48th), and to us a landmark, before condos and parking structures forced business like Ponte out and off the block.
Post Edited (2015-12-22 22:01)
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