M.R.S.  Mission

Musicians Repair Service is an instrument repair facility whose mission is to provide quality repairs so that professionals, amateurs, educators, and student musicians can attain their highest level of performance.  It is also committed to provide a safe, healthy, and profitable work place for its technicians and employees.  The company motto is:   

"We work so you can play"

M.R.S. Shop

M.R.S. is one of the most distinct repair shops for musical instruments. We have an extensive machine shop with fabrication capabilities, including welding, milling, media buffing/blasting, and custom finishes (including powder coating). The wood working shop is just as complete offering everything from bar instrument frame repair to custom flight cases. With the aid of computer frequency analysis our instrument customizing extends from woodwind tone hole undercutting, to bar instrument tuning, to microtonal instruments built to specifications. 2500 square feet of repair facility and 1200 square feet of used parts storage, as far as we know the most
diversified facility of its kind.

M.R.S. Technicians

JACK BUTCHER Jack is a graduate of the University of Akron where he received his B.S. in Percussion Performance. He has ten years of repair experience, is a clinician for Yamaha Corporation, and a NAPBIRT (National Association of Professional Band Instrument Repair Technicians) Master Clinician
where he serves as the organizations Percussion Consultant. Jack is also trained in string and brasswind instrument repairs which makes his approach to percussion repairing unique. His shop also performs
custom fabrication projects from all over the world. Building micro tonal instruments to the specifications of various composers and artists is the most prestigious work that is produced from his shop. Recently, Jack performed repair clinics at the West Point Military Academy, The Naval School of Music, the NAPBIRT International Convention (clinics every year since 1989) and the 1994 P.A.S.I.C. convention which is available from CPP Media.

PETER LAVICTOIRE Pete has eighteen years repair experience and is a graduate from the Allied School of Instrument Repair in Elkhorn Wisconsin. Pete is a Woodwind and Brasswind Technician. He is known for his woodwind customizing projects such as woodwind modernization and roller additions to prewar Heckle and other bassoons, lost key manufacturing, and broken tenon replacement. His brasswind projects include rekeying and configuring instruments, fourth valve additions to three valve instruments, and Thayer valve conversions. He builds many of the specialized tools used in the shop. Pete has been an active member of NAPBIRT for more than fifteen years.

DOUG MCINERNEY attended the University of Akron and studied trumpet. He received his technical training at Western Iowa Technical School, one of the last remaining instrument repair schools in the world. Doug as been in the music business trade for many years and he knows countless tricks and tips to do the job efficiently.
 

CHERRIE FINCH has a B.M. in Flute Performance from the University of Akron, and a Masters in Flute performance from Western Carolina University where she also studied for two years in flute and piccolo repairing and customizing with Edward Spell. Cherrie does almost all of the small woodwind instruments repairs in the shop. Cherrie recently attend the Strobenger Flute seminar and is certified to install Strobenger pads.