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Merry Christmas!
To my family, friends and clients, I wish you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! -Randy
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Trumpet Mash-up
Marcus brought this unfortunate horn into the shop, sheepishly explaining that he fell onto his trumpet while horsing around in the band room. This reinforces a couple of my repair tech principles: gig bags are dent bags and humans can … Continue reading
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Tagged brass repair, instrument repair, Randy J Mueller, trumpet repair
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Highway of Horns
A couple of weeks ago I visited the Potomac Arts Academy, a community arts organization at George Mason University that provides instruments for underprivileged kids in schools in Virgina. They wanted me to take a look at 84! horns in … Continue reading
Wonder!
Yesterday we visited the newly renovated Renwick Gallery to see the first exhibit, appropriately titled, Wonder. It was all that and more. As soon as you enter, you are drawn up the red carpet staircase to something colorful and luminous … Continue reading
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Tagged Chakaia Booker, Gabriel Dawe, Janet Echelman, Jennifer Angus, John Grade, Maya Lin, Patrick Dougherty, Renwick Gallery, Tara Donovan, Wonder
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The Clarinet from Heck
I recently had a heck of a personal growth moment with an early 1940s Selmer B-flat soprano clarinet with a low E-flat key. This is only the second one I’ve seen in my work life, and it gave me a … Continue reading
Halloween, Day and Night
One Halloween is not enough! Once you have the suit, it’s hard to give it up. Today was Halloween at Monroe Street Market where I have my shop. The “powers that be” asked the artists to ham it up for the … Continue reading
Aliens, Spooks, Art and Fire
For the second year we attended the most amazing Halloween spectacle in the hills of Warrenton, Virginia, courtesy of our good friends Craig and May. There are always new and fascinating people who gather around their country home, and this … Continue reading
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Tagged 1000 Faces, Craig McPherson, Dalya Luttwak, John Henry, Kate Doyle, Patricia Underwood, Stone Hill Farm
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Smithsonian Jazz
Last week Yolanda and I attended an Afro-Cuban jazz concert by the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, on the advice of our buddy, Augie Cruz. Augie is a Cuban American and the idea of mixing jazz with a Latin beat was … Continue reading
Disco Birthday, French Style
It’s been a while since the 80s, but when I was there, I was ALL THERE. Think platform shoes, bell bottoms and big hair, groovin’ under the flashing light of a disco ball. These days my hair isn’t quite so … Continue reading
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