Musical Instrument Repairs by Rod Baltimore

Quality is not an act, it is a habit

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT REPAIRS BY ROD BALTIMORE

Musical Instrument Repair – Quality Workmanship At Reasonable Rates.

Repairs by the leading professional technician in the industry
Service that is affordable, timely, and unconditionally guaranteed
Your Source for Repairs for Woodwind & Brass Instruments
QUALITY WORK, FAIR PRICES, & PROMPT SERVICE
A Full Service Repair Shop located on Long Island
Serving Musicians From Student to "Pro"
Mouthpiece re-plating.
Supplier of all accessories.
All work guaranteed.
Insurance repairs.
Instrument case repairs.

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Brass instruments we specialize in
repairing and cleaning are
Trumpets
Cornets
Flugel Horns
Bugles
Trombones
Tubas
Sousaphones
Baritones
Euphoniums
French horns

Our years of experience can help repair your
woodwind instruments to renew sound quality and performance
Bassoon
Clarinet
English Horn
Flute
Oboe
Piccolo
Saxophone

REPAIR SERVICES

Here at Musical Instrument Repairs by Rod Baltimore, we understand that musical instruments can require repair at any time for a wide variety of reasons. You never know when your instrument is going to stop functioning properly, which is why it’s important to turn to us for repairs of instruments.

You’ll receive an immediate diagnosis of the issue when you visit Musical Instrument Repairs by Rod Baltimore for repairs. We will provide you with a detailed explanation of the issue and give you an accurate price estimate. Following this, the instrument will be repaired, serviced and cleaned before being tested and returned to you. Call us anytime for information on the cleaning supplies we offer and the repair services you can request.

We've been servicing area musicians and music stores in the New York City area for over 40 years. We provide all levels of repair from minor adjustments to full restorations.

Our new instrument repair shop in Long Beach, NY on Long Island is the company to call for instrument repairs. At Musical Instrument Repairs by Rod Baltimore, we have the ability to restore function to your brass and woodwind instruments at affordable prices.

We repair all woodwind and brasswind instruments, from piccolos to saxes to clarinets to contrabassoons, professional to student instruments.

Rod Baltimore has been tending to the needs of musicians & educators, offering customers the finest quality musical instruments and accessories at competitive prices as well as our famous repair services. We also have the finest selection of hard-to-find vintage and previously owned instruments.

Musical Instrument Repairs by Rod Baltimore is proud to offer the highest quality New York City woodwind repairs. We are professional saxophone players, and we specialize in all saxophone related services. We take great pride in both our work and attention to detail.

ROD BALTIMORE - Instrument Builder and Master Repair Technician

Rod Baltimore has been a music retailer, instrument maker and a master woodwind and brass repair technician in New York for over 55 years. Much of that time was spent on the famed 48th street music central. Rod had been a music retailer in New York for over 40 years. Much of that time was spent on the famed 48th street music central. Working with brass and woodwinds, Rod maintained one of the most sought after repair shop in the America.

Today he plies his craft from his new master's workshop in Long Beach New York on Long Island.

Any given day from his workshop, Rod can be found hammering gently at a client’s flute, clarinet, sax, oboe, English horn, bassoon, trombones, big brass, tenors, altos, French horns, and anything in woodwind and brass., while hundreds of wounded instruments hang from hooks on the wall eagerly awaiting repair. Rod is a master at woodwinds and brass instrument repair. Baltimore was already a fixture on 48th St. at the tender age of 12, when he started shining shoes outside a bar to pay for music lessons. When the weather turned cold, the sympathetic bar owner suggested he learn a trade, and sent him off to the Penzel Mueller instrument-making factory in Long Island City. That led to a fifteen-year apprenticeship that took him to factories in France and Germany, as well as New York. When he completed his training, there was no question about where he would work — with the pros on 48th Street.

Rod and his apprentices do repairs big and small — from pad replacements to a complete overhaul for beloved instruments that have literally been run over by cars or subway trains. Rod's shop is not only crammed with instruments and the tools of his trade on every available surface, it has the fascinating aura of the history of 20th century jazz. While his flattened thumbs tinker with a French horn's piston valves, this old-school craftsman nonchalantly relates stories about Stan Getz throwing his tenor sax across the room in a drunken rage and flying him out to Calumet City, Ill., to fix it.

John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Johnny Campo, who plays in the shows, all the guys doing Broadway and off-Broadway. You name it, if they play a woodwind or brass instrument, and are renowned musicians, they have called upon Rod to repair or overhaul their instrument.

Rod’s goal is to continue to provide state of the art services for professional or be overhauls, restorations, intonation work, custom necks, custom key work and professional products.

Rod’s philosophy and techniques for restoration have been called "visionary" and "pioneering" for good reason. For the past 55 years his work has been guided by the principles of Adolphe Sax. Rod continues to serve musicians with his mandate of preserving and improving the unique tone quality, acoustic response, mechanical integrity and cosmetics of the instruments we offer or repair. Rod continues his tradition of doing repairs big and small — from pad replacements to a complete overhaul for beloved instruments that have literally been run over by cars or subway trains.

Rod often tell his clients and co-workers, you can just tell by feel. If something's wrong with a horn we don't even have to play it. “All we have to do is put this light in there and it will tell you everything that's wrong with the horn. Then we play them when it's done.”


Interview with Rod Baltimore from the NAMM Oral History Program	ROD BALTIMORE TESTS OUT TENOR SAX IN HIS SHOP

Friend to both the Stars, Working Professionals,
and Noviced Musicians Alike

We have had a wonderful time serving our customers and community over the years and making a ton of new partners and friends. We want to take a moment to say thank you to all the people who have made this business a wonderful and memorable time. Some of our friends and treasured customers are no longer with us and we present them here in loving memory. Others are still making wonderful music for all their friends and fans.

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THE SHOP

Comprehensive Repair Facilities

Rod Baltimore has over 55 years of repair experience in all woodwind and brass instruments.

Musical Instrument Repairs by Rod Baltimore in Long Beach, NY, is the most experienced full-service repair facility in the country.

All repairs and overhauls performed personal by Mr. Baltimore and are unconditionally guaranteed.

Musical Instrument Repairs by Rod Baltimore is an authorized service center for the most widely respected band and orchestra instrument brands.

HAVE AN INSTRUMENT THAT NEEDS REPAIR?

Make an appointment and we'll give it a look.

My workshop is fully equipped with the latest specialist high tech as well as traditional tools and also a massive stock of pads, spares and accessories to cover most repairs to saxophones, clarinets, flutes, oboes and bassoons. I have been repairing woodwinds now for over 55+ years and all instruments are fully play tested by me on completion.

All major repair jobs including overhauls and customizations are guaranteed for one year because we stand by the quality of our work and want to be certain that our customers are always satisfied. We use only top-quality pads (leather, double fish-skin, plastic resonators, metal resonators with/without rivet) for pad replacements and woodwind instrument overhauls. More generally, if you are unhappy with any repair (minor or major) done in our shop, don't hesitate to bring it back to us so that we can re-examine the instrument and find a solution for you at no extra charge.

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CONTACT

Located in Long Beach, New York.

Shop hours by appointment

Please call ahead.

FIND US
Located In South Nassau County, Long Island
Close to Brooklyn, Queens, and Suffolk Counties and Manhattan New York

We are a short drive from the Bronx, the Hudson Valley, Westchester, Connecticut and New Jersey

	(516) 574-3292
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Call or message me anytime and I will get back to you promptly

No Phone Estimates

It is very difficult (if not impossible) to give a fair estimate for a repair job without first seeing the instrument to be worked on. To receive an official estimate for repair work, you will have to visit our shop or arrange to have your instrument shipped to us in New York. To make arrangements to ship your instrument to us in Long Beach, NY, there are many ways to get in contact with us. You are welcome to visit our repair shop for an estimate at any time during normal business hours by appointment.

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