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Basic Instrument Care Guide

General advice on maintaining your wind instrument in-between services: ALL wind instruments need some attention from time to time, so regular servicing is a great idea. About once a year to 18 months is about the right time for a general service, this would include clean, adjustments and lubrication of moving parts, and the replacement […]

Cork grease ain’t cork grease!

La Tromba Cork Grease (3g or 15g) The lip stick style cork grease is always a popular (but not good) option for greasing the cork/tenon joints of the clarinet, oboe, or neck cork on a saxophone.This ‘grease’ is a no fuss and clean way to grease the joints, however the compound used has very poor […]

ReVamping

We take pride in making sure every instrument we sell, new or second hand, is the best it can be! We recently traded this old Yamaha 23 in from a school. This instrument looked ugly, but had always been well serviced and still had a lot of playing life in it.To make it presentable and […]