“The Last Repair Shop” focuses on the people who maintain the 140,000 musical instruments owned by Los Angeles Unified School District public schools. Funding for music and arts education has been ...

Chen plays a cello in the museum in May.[Photo by Hu Meidong/China Daily] Transportation was a difficult issue. Chen remembers that once, when he tried to transport a piano weighing about 500 ...

When your trumpet is crumpled or your flute sounds flat, rural western Montana can be a tough place to find a fix. That’s where Music Medics comes in. It’s an instrument repair shop that started ...

MANTUA TWP., New Jersey (WPVI) -- The back-to-school rush in the instrument repair shop at Coles Music Service in Mantua Township, New Jersey began in May. That's when they receive thousands of ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A new documentary short takes us inside "The Last Repair Shop." It's from filmmakers Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers, who received an Oscar nomination in 2020 for their ...

LOS ANGELES -- Anyone who's ever played an instrument knows how life-changing music can be. A dozen people in the nation's second-largest school district who work tirelessly to keep the melodies ...

DIDN’T START UNTIL JUST BEFORE TEN. AND FOR YEARS IN OVERLAND PARK, MAN HAS BEEN GIVING NEW LIFE TO BROKEN INSTRUMENTS. HE REBUILDS THEM AND GIVES THEM TO KIDS IN NEED. BUT AS KMBC NINE’S ALAN SHOPE ...

After so many dents, dings, scratches and scuffs, it’s hard to imagine music sounding from a trumpet that looks like a twisted piece of brass. Daniel Parker, CEO and President of the Colorado ...

There's no shortage of talented musicians who have come from Kansas schools, said Joshua Cook, instructor of instrument ...

FARGO - Summertime is high-season for Glenn Miller, the sole string instrument technician at Christian Eggert Violins. While the area's young musicians are playing summer sports, pool-hopping and ...