Tuba Restoration Part 3, 2023, band instrument repair, Wes Lee Music Repair
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- In part 3, the outer branch gets dents taken out and put back to round. Parts are rounded and mated roughly back together.
Tools used:
Ferree's Tools- www.FerreesToolsInc.com
Intro & Music:
V6 Creatives- V6creatives@gmail.com
Thanks for watching.
Who knew tuba dents could be so interesting!
Outstanding work.
It’s sad to see instruments mistreated.
Good morning sir l could never get tired of watching a master at work. Have a great day.
Its fascinating how you achieve smooth roundness, truly amazing watching it happen in front of us
What an amazing progress on that definitely vandalised instrument. Love to see your professional wizardry. 👍
Sir, you are quite literally a miracle worker. I would’ve thought that instrument was destined for the trash. It really is fascinating, watching you bring them back to life.
Nice one, as usual, but even better than before! Nicer intro, also I too think a before/after shot at the end would impress even more. Great job Sir!
Wes, all your videos are good. I am finding this series especially enjoyable. Thank you.
I wanted to comment in times past when I watch your videos about something that may be helpful to you. I noticed that you have many specialized tools, and I am amazed at how well they work. If you would look up on UA-cam Paintless dent repair in the auto body business, you may see a few different instruments there that would interest in what you do now? For those who are not knowledgeable about automotive dent repair, there are people highly trained like this man who are able to remove dents without having to repaint the repaired area and they have many really nifty specialized tools, and of course extensive training.
I was thinking the same thing as I watched a paintless dent repair video. "That's what Mr. Lee does with instruments."
Have got some PDR tools on order. Planning a future video to see what they will do. Should be fun and interesting.
I’m impressed by your ability to repair these instruments. Years ago I thought I hat I would like to be able to repair musical instruments but I never knew where to stop. I’ve been watching you all morning. Imagine my surprise when I realized you are located in Petal, Mississippi. I live in Laurel and see that I have a real artist this close!
Wes is a master craftsman. Such a pleasure to watch someone of this caliber do his work.
Wow it looked unfixable! Great job 👍🏾
As a veteran brass player who has been obsessed with instrument security for 5 plus decades I amazed at the the damage caused to these instruments
But I witness with great admiration the massive skill base you bring forward to save these poor mistreated instruments from the parts bin
Thanks Wess
I was expecting it to be necessary to take that apart even more to repair it. Great job. Looks like you have a really nice shop and you keep it immaculate. Thanks for showing us.
What an outstanding job!
For those of us that have never been in a band room... just how does a Tuba get this damaged? Although not a musician, I sure enjoy watching Wes reshape this brass. What a master artisan!
As a former tuba player, I've seen this exact damage happen when it happened. After a concert you have to file off stage. Often times down a flight of stairs. Tubas are notoriously clumsy, top heavy and can be a pain to walk with. Our third chair player slipped and fell down the stairs and onto the tuba itself. thankfully aside from a few bruises and scrapes he was fine. The tuba, however, was a mangled mess. Brass is pretty soft and put the weight of a 16-year-old kid (boy typically, girl tuba players are few and far between, tho they do exist) rolling down some stairs on top of it...and squish lol. Also once saw a tuba dropped out of the back of school bus, which is a good 4-5 foot drop, that thing was also pretty banged up. After like 10 years in band. I'd say tubas are the most damaged instrument honestly. They're just wonky and weird, one slip and blammo. There's no "catching" a run away Tuba lol.
@@Spartucus101 Thanks sir... I can see it now. Did not fully comprehend the weight and balance issues, and then add stairs... I can understand it now. Thanks again!
@@Spartucus101 can say I've seen a flute get stepped in half like a dropped twig, band instructor had us lay our flutes down and I had the brain to lean mine against something upright cause next thing I knew, one of the upperclassmen had their "throwaway" flute get smashed by someone walking back into the school.
sousaphones are another hard abuse taker, heavy and their cases are designed in such a way you almost need a forklift to move them around and they roll away if dropped XD
They are big and clumsy. So are the 7th graders.....
Wes, the way you make the brass flow in your hands is absolutely magical!
Absolutely!
Wes, thanks for taking us into your shop and letting us share your experience. Can you explain a little about how an instrument like this gets damaged? From the beginning pictures, it looks like this instrument would be unplayable. How did it get so damaged? Thanks again for sharing.
Usually it’s from accidents while carrying the tuba. For example, sometimes people will trip and fall on stairs after a concert, and when the weight of 150 pounds or more falls on brass it folds straight in. Sometimes it’s with transport too, if you’re in a car or bus with an unsecured tuba it’s going to get thrown around and dented.
Craftsman Wess Lee, I am one of your subs and loving your work. I'm also TOOL DESIGNER, professionally for half a century. I'd love to make some prototypes for you, to swell severely dented in tubing, like your TUBA restoration project. My brain was firing as you worked.
I watch someone work and struggle with a job. Then, I go to PRAYER, and ask GOD if there's something "WE" can make, to assist a person to do that job easier and safer, and HE SHOWS ME. He puts it into my head how it looks, how it works, how to use it, and how to make it. All the procedures pertaining to it. I can also train someone to use it, and that's before I ever cut the first of the materials.
I need to be able to contact you, so I can get specifics and parameters from you and to be able to mail you the prototype.
I have made hundreds of tools, jigs, work-stands, lifting rigs, (for crane use), test equipment, procedures, etc. for a major railroad, as well as marina tools, THAT GOD HAS SHOWN ME THE DESIGN OF. I GIVE HIM A L L the credit.
How can I contact you?
I’ll definitely stay tuned for the next episode!
The damage to that instrument was unimaginable (for me, not for you, I'm sure). Your craftsmanship is breathtaking and your knowledge of how to use those specialized tools is amazingly extensive. I wish my dad was still alive so he could see your work. Dad was a professional musician and also repaired woodwind instruments for other professionals, many from the Chicago Symphony. He had nearly every tool out of the Erich Brand catalog, but that was nothing compared to what you have from Ferrees! Thanks for another marvelous video.
watching you work is poetry in motion
wow you have some bad ass skills
good job
Wow! You are really quite an artist Wes! Superb work!
Hi my friend, my name is Douglas I'm an instrumental repair as Well, congrats for your videos... Regaards feim Brazil
I have literally only seen your videos on the tuba restoration. I just have to say, the talent you posses is next level. I don't know anything about instruments at all but to see you take something that abused and restore it, its amazing. I have never had the patience to fix anything with my hands.
You are truly amazing at what you do.
Another great video. I'm rather a violin repair guy, but the physical principles are the same, and the learning of skill also. Bravo.
Watching your hammer artistry, I remembered the three principles of hand tools:
!. Always use the best tool for the job.
2. A hammer is always the best tool.
3. Anything can be used as a hammer.
Lunch is on me if you're ever in town. Cheers from overcast Vienna, Scott
Excellent work. You make it look easy. Years of experience.
Its amazing watching that brass flow as you applied pressure with the ball.
OK Wes, I hate you. You have shown me what I could have done with my life instead of the samo-samo sh*t I did, too late for me, but hopefully you will inspire others. Such skills!
Makes me want to go buy a trashed instrument at a garage sale and see if I can restore it myself.
Love the content. What a professional. Keep up the great work.
Graet job turning. Scrap into a useable instrument again.
So Amazing how do you work on really bad damaged parts... And how they look after... So nice... Thanks for your videos...
The part about the "light line" was very interesting.
I’m in awe of your skills. It’s a delight to watch a master craftsman at work.
Love your work. You've already explained how you deal with work-hardening, now I'm curious about how you handle stretching.
I've looked at quite a few of these videos. You do a fantastic job, are very skilled and quick!! I sometimes wonder however if the kids are denting these things up on purpose??
Good job dude!👍👍👍
You do amazing work!
Very informative! Great video!
Love what you do, but how on earth did that tuba get that way?!!! 😲 You're a magician!!
"But how on earth did that tuba get that way?" Teenagers.
I was thinking the same thing
If you set the tuba with the bell pointing down on the floor, all the weight is gravity-izing in that direction so when you knock it over a couple dozen times and it falls onto a hard floor, it looks just like that. Every school has one of those.
Nice job🎉
Enjoyed as always! Cheers from Canada...
Really enjoying this series. Curious how long in real time does it take to straighten something like this out? Looking forward to the next video.
The series was filmed over 2 work days.
Excelente trabajo 👍👍👍👍👍👍
As a former tuba/sousaphone player, I can't imagine what happened to this horn. We used cases for traveling to distant contests and ball games. Otherwise they were carried without cases. I never I eight years saw one that bad.
Great job repairing and getting this tuba tuned up!
I repaired back in the mid 1980s to early 90s for large overhaul shops. There's several ways they get this damaged. Band Room standing on the bell and getting kicked, knocked over. banged into music stands , risers, table edges. bouncing down wooden bleachers at basketball games being laid on the bleacher and getting knocked off. Kids hitting them with drum sticks , percussion mallets. Marching in parades and slipping out of hands onto the street. Etc...
Impressive craftsmanship and a well produced podcast! Is it normal for school band instruments to routinely sustain this type of damage?
Can you hear the difference between before and after the repair
Love your work
espectacular trabajo
Hi Wes, I really enjoy your videos. You’ve truly resurrected some instruments that seemed too far gone. Big works. How do you approach delicate work, like little pings in a trumpet bell? And for such what would be your tools of choice to work out?
By the way, the amount of abuse these instruments suffer is painful, it's like we live in world without instrument cases, my lord..
Kids just beat these instruments to hell without regard for their value. Regrettable.
@@peterespada6226 Not really, most of the times kids know they can’t afford the instruments and try not to break it. When I see a tuba like this, it’s usually because of an accident while carrying it. Sometimes you have to walk multiple flights of stairs after a concert, and with something like a tuba, (and the fact those stairs tend to be steep,) it’s very easy to fall down and hurt yourself and the tuba. I’ve also seen things like bus and plane companies not securing the instrument, and even with a case a tuba is not surviving anything involved with that.
Your work is truly mesmerizing. I wonder however if your time and effort are really cost effective on an instrument that is so damaged? A $3000 tuba, and if you are paid (let's say $100/hr) would be worth 30 hours of your time. I am curious how many hours this repair "cost" you? I love to watch you work, thank you for the wonderful content.
Que perfeito amigo .
Is there any instruments that are too far gone to fix? Some of these look like they were drug behind a truck. You do amazing work. I wish I had my old trumpet back where I could try some of you techniques to straighten the bell. Love the videos.
I lucked into a tapered steel mandrel that's the right size for that side of the tuba from a retired repairman. Only trouble is it weighs about 16 metric boatloads so it's too heavy to mount in a vise. I set it on the floor pointing up and jam the tuba down onto it. That straightens everything up 80% in about 10 seconds. A little tapping on the high spots and sunken brace footprints with a soft hammer and the mandrel still in there and it's 95%.
If that's the third time you've nhad to take the dents out of that particular tuba, have you considered just passing it on to someone who might look after it? Fascinated by your skill, by the way.
What a maestro!
Some kid really didn’t want to play that Tuba. Wow.
Wes, we have just acquired a King trumpet. It is a King Vocal C and Bb Trumpet. My wife got this when she purchased an abandoned storage locker. It needs a bit of work to get it in playing condition. Would you like to take this on?
Awesome metal forming work removing those dents. You mentioned this was a middle school tube, not saying it is by any means cheap but with it being an entry level instrument, with the amount of damage it had how close was it to just being not economical to repair?
que admirable su trabajo Señor LEE.
Always a pleasure to see an artist at work. You mentioned this is possibly the third time you've done this same work on this horn. Is there a point where the metal has been worked too much to be able to fix again? Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for sharing this!
Amazing!
Lots and lots of patience. How long is the apprenticeship? Are there many such instrumental repairers?
Top Arbeit. Schade dass du deine Werkstatt nicht in der Schweiz hast.
How do instruments get like this? After 19 years as a band teacher, school boards generally do not allocate sufficient funds to fix school-owned horns every year. So, the dings and dents keep multiplying year after year until the money can be shaken loose to repair said horns. I never had anything look like this because we did fund raising to do repairs, replace cases, buy supplies, etc. I might add, this was in an inner-city middle school in a major, but declining city in the rust belt...
👍👍👍 When Will I See You Again ?!
Do you have a video explaining how you got your start? Training, buying and building your tool kit etc.
You can start at the beginning of the channel's videos and probably get a great understanding. Wes talks about this at different times.
When I was in HS one of the bass drummers and Sousaphones decided to race around the track. They didn't get very far, the bass drummer fell and rolled over his horn busting his chin open. The tuba player tripped on the bass drummer and rolled his bell 30 degrees from normal and crinkled the bell attachment area. Don't know if they ever fixed it. Would have been interesting to see.
It might not be a bad idea to show the before and after picture before you get started on a new section of this instrument.
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Part 3? I know I've been busy... but had no idea I was already falling that far behind. LOL
I have never seen one that bad. I'm 52 and spent many years playing horns all the way back in grade school. Even in Drum Corp International nobody really broke horns badly like that. Makes you wonder how all that damage happened.
Great job! BTW, what the heck are they using this instruments for?😂
Almost there now.
Hey, I recently got my first trumpet, and I’ve been loving it, but two of the buttons have kind of been “sticking” where sometimes if I push them down the go back up slowly, do you maybe know how to fix that?
he is the "maincraft" 🎮⛏ of musical instruments
At what point does the cost of repair become not worth it? I used to play tuba, I know how much these instruments go for, but the amount of time you put into these repairs and at the quality level you're operating at...
When you have to really smack those D-shaped turns back out, it kinda makes you wonder how the little demons managed to get it so bent in the first place! I call those "middle-school abuse dents" . The high school ones have more "wear and tear" dents and usually don't look like they fell down the stairs, YMMV
why do you not use the grease on the REM work? Thanks!
"Hey, Wes,...Feel like going to the gym after you get out of work?" Never mind....
??!2nd or 3rd time you have de-dented that instrument?!??! How does that happen? Are there extra points for kicking the tuba through the goal posts?
did the muso use that tuba as a hammer?
what do I have to buy if I want this magnet, ball, plastic thing for the bends?
I'm wondering how it is possible to reduce this instruments in this way, but what did they do with it?? did they use them as baseball bats??
The instrument has to be dented for the second or third time? Maybe kicking the player's butt as many times as the instrument was dented would help in the future?
the question still remains...what ran over it 🤣
I bet you keep plenty of Motrin on hand for back and body aches after a fight like this!
Second or third time de-denting that instrument? It seems like that level of damage doesn't happen unless someone is intentionally causing damage to it.
Never underestimate the determination of band kids.
@@patrickcrabb6212 .... That don't have a raging prick of a band teacher. Finished your statement for you.
Is this an Eb tuba?
Do you ever ask the client how this damage happened? I'm curious. It doesn't look like they simply dropped it. Looks like someone spent hours bashing it in with a hammer.
I’m not sure how to contact you outside of the comments section. But, I wanted to ask if you would be willing to do some instrument work for me.
Is that an itty bitty tuba? or is W actually 6'8"?
It was a 3/4 tuba.
.A NEW TUBA IS $300.....HOW MUCH DOES YOUR REPAIR COST?
I'm just...Who is running these things over with tanks? HOW!? are these instruments getting to this stage!?
You need to be strong to do this, no work out needed....