this website is intended to show my work and interests that I have spent over 45 years developing. Now that I’m retired, I have more time to add and edit content here.

I have a passion for learning and sharing the history of the brass instrument industry and the instruments that they produced.  The content here can be accessed through the menus above, leading to gallery pages. Most of the articles can be accessed through the “History of Makers” index page and the “Museum” gallery. “Essays” is a listing of longer articles on related topics. Restoration and preservation have been the focus of my business and I feature just a few jobs from the past.  "Other Projects" are the more unusual and even rather quirky instruments that I have built or modified for customers.  "Replicas" shows some of the historic reproductions that I have built over the years that I no longer make.

More recently, I've added a section, "Mechanics" where I share some specifics of the job, mostly for your entertainment, but also to communicate to others in the field.  I will continue adding content in all these categories and thinking of new ways of discovering and sharing information.  Let me know if you have any suggestions, corrections or even criticism as long as it's constructive.  I'm sure that there will be errors in fact and judgement contained here, and I am constantly making corrections and additions where possible.

The information presented here is mostly for your entertainment and education and for my desire to share my interests.  It is not for promotion of my services, since I’m retired now and only work on projects that interest me.  I’ve only worked on brass (cup mouthpiece) instruments and no woodwind (reed) or other instruments.    

I'm always interested in buying quality and desirable vintage and antique brass instruments.  I don't do appraisals, sorry.  If an appraisal is needed for other than estate settlement or similar reasons, I would recommend that you search the internet in general for dealers inventories and specifically Internet auction sites (“sold items” for actual sales prices and not the champagne dreams of unsold items!).