Stohrer Music News, October 2022

I have finally overhauled my websites and combined them, and now all of my content lives here in a much simpler format. I prioritized ease of use, quick load times, and a simple design that was inspired by early internet. Still using WordPress as a site builder, after a dalliance with a simpler but less …

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Re-absorbing Open Source Saxophone Project Content

The open source saxophone project ended up being mostly me doing it (although I had some fantastic help with the pivot screw stuff) and it seemed dumb and felt like extra work maintaining two different websites. So I have added everything that was once on the Open Source Saxophone Project to this website, under Sax …

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Stohrer Music News – Late 2021

First things first: I continue to be extremely lucky and am booked for the foreseeable future. I am not currently accepting new clients, and I will post a news item if that changes. Well gosh *darn* that was a hell of a year, or hundred years, or whatever that was. My wrist is mostly healed …

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Broken Wrist!

In mid-January 2021, I sustained a crushing injury to my left wrist and badly shattered it. I got very lucky considering the nature of the accident that I was not injured much more severely, and I am happy to report that surgery went well (there was worry I would need a much more invasive surgery …

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I’m back!

It is November 2020, and I am back to saxophone repair after a year-long sabbatical with a renewed passion. I was lucky to have the time away so I could see how truly lucky I am to have this job. Contact me to schedule an overhaul, which is mostly what I am doing these days …

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Stohrer Music News: June 2019

Howdy! It has been a while. I am still here, still working full time+ on basically only the best saxophones for super awesome people, and still booked solid. I’ve been busy at work but also busy with life: I’ve traveled a few times, fixed a couple of cars, fixed up an old tractor I found, …

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Stohrer Music News, Late 2017 Edition

  Man, where to begin?  I’ve been putting this off for too long, so what the hell, I’ll just write it and post it.   Well, an awful lot has happened in my little corner of the world in the past year, and updates to this site and my YouTube channel have been slow as I …

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Stohrer Music News, Introspection 2015 Edition

  (Edit, December 2015.  Waitlist was opened for a while and is now closed again until 2017 at least.  That was fast!  But since I work slow, it doesn’t take a whole lot to keep me busy.  Read on though, because the majority of this post talks about a change in my repair philosophy and …

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