The clinicians will discuss the pros and cons of having an inhouse repair shop while teaching students the art of band instrument repair. Running the shop class as a VPA elective or CTE both have merit. In addition, the clinicians will demonstrate easy fixes that all directors can do now and show students to get them excited about band instrument repair as a career pathway. The clinicians will have tools lists and other documents/handouts to get started.
Target Audience
Band Directors and Beyond!
Additional Notes
Clinician Info
Daniel Sedgwick
Del Norte High School
Dan Sedgwick is entering his 19th year teaching in public schools, 17 in Crescent City at Del Norte High School. He has taught choirs, jazz bands, steel band, percussion ensemble and marching/concert band over the years. Most recently for the past 4 years, Mr. Sedgwick has taught band instrument repair as a class at Del Norte High School. The class was born out of necessity because the closest repair shop was about 4 hours away. The class is set up with 8 student work stations and the students are taught how to fix instruments. The students and two staff members fix all the instruments at DNUSD. So far, three students from DNHS have gone on to be repair techs in the field. It is an honor to be a teacher and advocate for this rare class taught at the high school level.
Aaron
Cesar Chavez High School
Aaron Moss was hired at Stockton Unified School District 17 years ago. He started teaching the 6-8 grade bands in the mornings and by noon was repairing instruments and running the central instrument warehouse. Aaron has an instrument repair background since 1999. Aaron was always in districts that did not have music stores nearby or the budget to keep instruments properly repaired and maintained. I learned first by necessity and then apprenticed under a 45 year repair veteran and also took various clinics and classes. It was the 2017 school year that the one and only instrument repair man in the town told the district he was retiring and closing his music store and that we needed to figure out a plan on how repairs were going to happen moving forward. Aaron was approached by the district’s Arts Director and laid out a plan on how SUSD could move forward with a repair class.