Brad Close Brass Instrument Repair

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Brad Close Brass Instrument Repair I'm here to shamelessly promote my repair business. If you need a slide job, valve tune-up or alignm

Scraping a classical F bass bell.
10/07/2026

Scraping a classical F bass bell.

Making some slide parts for the monster contrabass.
10/05/2026

Making some slide parts for the monster contrabass.

Bending the slide crooks for the monster BBb contrabass trombone.
09/25/2026

Bending the slide crooks for the monster BBb contrabass trombone.

I am building the biggest trombone ever made. At least as far as I know. A customer has requested a BBb very large bore ...
09/20/2026

I am building the biggest trombone ever made. At least as far as I know. A customer has requested a BBb very large bore contrabass trombone. These are the parts I'm starting with. The slide tubes are going to be a whopping .689/.728 inch dual bore. It will be a double slide. Valves and valve tubing will be .772 inch, with two inline valves. The bell comes from a euphonium, and various tuba and euphonium branches will complete the bell section. I will update with more photos as I progress.

06/11/2026

Playing the Salpinx.

This was a fun project. A customer asked me to build a reproduction of an ancient Greek Salpinx, which was a kind of sig...
06/11/2026

This was a fun project. A customer asked me to build a reproduction of an ancient Greek Salpinx, which was a kind of signalling trumpet. It has 3 sections and a mouthpiece that fit together via tapered connections. Because of its length, the original had a chain connected to the bell to help hold it up.

Bending some sackbut crooks.
10/12/2025

Bending some sackbut crooks.

Just finished this custom Bach 42 Meinlschmidt valve install.
10/12/2025

Just finished this custom Bach 42 Meinlschmidt valve install.

Here's the finished alto sackbut.
06/06/2024

Here's the finished alto sackbut.

The new shop is shaping up nicely.
05/02/2024

The new shop is shaping up nicely.

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3542 Foothill Boulevard
La Crescenta-Montrose, CA
91214

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+18189572448

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