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Specialized woodwind repairs located in the Pacific Northwest. Contact Nick at [email protected] Oboe & English Horn reeds

11/06/2026

This repair was experimental and I learned quite a bit from it. The tenon on this Yamaha 211 broke off and I wanted to keep the cost down for the customer. Rather than remaking the tenon, I epoxied the tenon back in place and added a few carbon fiber pins for support. The drilling of holes was scary as there is not have much clearance but i kept the angle away from the bore.

10/31/2026

Bass Oboe reed on an English Horn. Who would have known?

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10/27/2026

How do you like my Bb - B gliss? (Gotta practice that to be a bit slower)

10/23/2026

This week I installed a few inserts, pins, resized an E tone hole back to original size, and a philly D addition (to a different oboe).

I am amazed at how many times I see tone holes opened up, especially the E tone hole, which is underneath the D pad key. After I made sure everything was sealing, the oboe played great with the originally intended tone hole size. I included an exceept with lots of E's in the play test, as well as some D and C # trills to test my trill inserts.

10/17/2026

This is that same B series Loree from the last post. Plays great.

10/09/2026

Original B series loree. I replaced the old and worn reed socket first, got that out of the way before the regular service portion. I'll post me playing it on another post.

10/02/2026

This one was a doozy. This oboe is actually the same type of oboe I started on. All wooden Selmer. No left F. It actually turned out pretty well, saving as many pads as I could. You can see how off level the original pads were with the indentions. I think I replaced about 9 pads. Numerous mechanical issues, cracked/leaking wood, rebuilding of the tenon was necessary, but now its a useable instrument.

09/26/2026

New rod, 4 new pin scew holes.

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09/18/2026

This oboe is just a few serial numbers off from my personal oboe. Beautiful instrument. Needed some love, though. The porrous nature of Rosewood can sometimes create the leak as shown in the video. Thats a fairly easy fix by filling in the gap with silk banding.

09/12/2026

Shop Upgrade! It's going to be nice and toasty this winter. I knew where the placement of the unit was going to be so I replaced the rotted out boards and put insulation inside that area. I'll finish insulating the rest later on but it's nice to see the unit ready to go. Super excited.

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Portland, OR
97206

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Monday	8:45am - 2:45pm
Tuesday	8:45am - 2:45pm
Wednesday	8:45am - 2:45pm
Thursday	8:45am - 2:45pm
Friday	8:45am - 2:45pm

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