Atkinson Brass Horn Repair

The following picture is one of several braces that had to be re-soldered after having the bell cut. I think the picture speaks for itself:




Now I'm not a horn repair technician but I have replace copper plumbing in my home as well as other kinds of soldering and I've never done anything that bad.

Here's the photo of the main bell brace.



That's a piece of paper I'm inserting under the brace which wasn't completely soldered. I'm guessing the extra solder needed to fill the gap between the brace and the tail was used to make those extra glops of solder in the first photo. After getting the horn back, I took the horn to a local repair shop that fixes high-school band instruments. They did a better job.

Atkinson Brass Invoices for French Horn Repair Services

So I guess before, I start a website, slamming a company like Atkinson for incompetent repairs on my horn and overall customer dissatisfaction, I should at least prove that I did partake of their services. Here are both the invoices. The first invoice, is related to the valve re-plating. The second is in relation to having the bell cut which I called in while they had the horn the first time. Note, I blacked out my shipping information. I also apologize for the poor quality of the scans. This weekend, I'll dig the invoices out again and rescan them.

The first invoice:




Here is the second invoice for having the bell cut: