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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 ...

The LAUSD musical repair shop is getting a $1 million donation from legendary musician, producer and philanthropist Herb Alpert, who got his start playing trumpet in this very school district. Why it ...

FORT MEADE, Md. -- It came to him mutilated, bearing the dents and scars of Afghanistan. It looked like someone had dropped it from a helicopter or run it over with a tank, he said. He spent three ...

Tim Adelson spends his workdays repairing musical instruments for students across the Clark County School District. The reason he does it? He wants to ensure more students stay in music programs. “It ...

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 ...

Instructor Joe Strohl, foreground, with trombone slide in hand, critiques instrument repair student Noah Patrick's work, as Patrick looks down. Students at Bowie High School in Arlington are learning ...

Herb Alpert got his start playing trumpet in L.A.'s public schools. He wants to help make that "magic" possible for students.

At a warehouse in an industrial corridor of downtown Los Angeles, a handful of technicians are hunched over their brightly lit workstations, tinkering with saxophones, violins, and pianos. This ...