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Re: New Members and Lurkers

Author: jwiseman114
Date: 2007-12-11 02:07

You can email me at johnthewise@msn.com or you can leave it on the forum if you'd like. Like I said, I haven't been on this board very long but there seems to be a lot of knowledge amoungst the posters.

The most important thing in my opinion is that you find, if you go in this direction, a great person to apprentice with. I was very lucky and had two people that were, and are incredible. The schools are good but they can't do for you what a great mentor can do. They are teaching a large group at a rudimentary level and they are stuffing a lot into a small amount of time. My two mentors were and are highly intelligent, skilled musicians and repairmen with national reputations. They are wonderful friends and never tired of my questions. I can still go to both and they always have great solutions when I run into problems.

The second most important thing is that you find interesting work and develop your skills to a level that you are the one in the shop doing that interesting work. If you think about the demographics of musical instruments, 90% of repair work is student horns and the sad fact is that it is work that is expected to be cranked out so that the repair costs can be kept down. I have seen it in the shop that I work in but have managed to avoid it. There is a huge influx of cheaply made instruments that are hard to get excited about working on.

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