Welcome to our Repair Shop

Position:
Director of Repair Services

E-mail: timroethler@paigesmusic.com

Start Date: May 3, 1977

Training or Education:
74th Army Band (Indianapolis), Attended Bowling Green State University in Ohio, Apprenticed repair with a ‘Factory Trained’ repairman

Where are you from originally:
Bellbrook, Ohio (a small town outside of Dayton, Ohio)

What instruments do you play:
Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute

What groups do/did you play with:
John Denver, Jackson 5, Pat Boone, Phyllis Diller, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphonic Band, Ice Capades, Barnum & Bailey Circus, many, many more......

What do you enjoy most about being a technician:
That everyday brings a new challenge

What is your most memorable musical experience:
I was playing for the "Pat Boone Family" at the Indiana State Fair. At the time I was still traveling back and forth between Ohio and Indiana. The band was sitting on stage and Pat Boone was talking to the audience. His wife tapped me on the shoulder and asked "quick, what is the Governor's name?" I answered, "James Rhodes" who, unfortunately, was the Governor of Ohio. I knew immediately what I had done but she was off to the front of the stage before I could catch her. Of course the joke about the Governor went over like a lead balloon. When I was able to explain after the show, they were both laughing.

E-mail: brubin@paigesmusic.com

Position: Woodwind Repair Coordinator/Woodwind Technician

Start Date: November, 1994

Training or Education:
- Bachelor of Music Education- Indiana University
- Band Director for 7 years
- Apprenticed in repair 30 years experience as a repair technician.

Where are you from originally:
Bloomington, IN - Graduated from Bloomington High School North.

What instruments do you play:
Principal Instrument is Trumpet

What groups do/did you play with:
Played with the Indianapolis Brass Choir for 15 seasons.

What do you enjoy most about being a technician:
The daily variety of problem solving opportunities.

What is the most unusual repair you’ve had to deal with:
I remember one saxophone on which a customer attempted to use super glue to reattach a post, and it looked like the tube burst open. It required much time and patience to do what was necessary to restore the finish as possible, and resolder the post. Needless to say, it would never look new again.

What is your most memorable musical experience:
There have been many great moments, from a trip to a musicfestival in Holland, to playing in the Rocky Mountains at the firehouse of Silverton Colorado.

E-mail: shayden@paigesmusic.com

Position: Brass Repair Coordinator/Brass Technician

Start Date: June, 1977

Training or Education:
- High school in Evansville, IN. at F.J.Reitz High School (1968)
- College in Bloominton, IN. at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Bachelor of Music/trumpet, (1975)
- Anderson University School of Theology - Adult Learning (2006-7)

Where are you from originally:
Evansville, IN and have lived in Indianapolis since 1975.

What instruments do you play:
Trumpet, harmonica, dulcimer, congas, assorted percussion

What groups do/did you play with:
In many chamber groups with Bob Phillips and Lee Jones, a brass quintet for over 20 years (The Carriage House Brass) the Indianapolis Concert Band, Indianapolis Philharmonic, Evansville Philharmonic, The New Ventures Dance Band and other various organizations associated with church music

What do you enjoy most about being a technician:
I enjoy the satisfaction of doing a job well and restoring something that was broken and unuseable to playing condition.

What is the most unusual repair you’ve had to deal with:
Removing a LIVE kitten from a tuba’s 3rd branch tubing

What is your most memorable musical experience:
Hearing Maynard Ferguson and Lynn Biviano live in concert; the Moscow Philharmonic playing Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony in the I.U. Auditorium and the Empire Brass at the Circle Theatre.

Position:
Stringed Instrument Repair Coordinator/Technician

E-mail: tmay@paigesmusic.com

Start Date: July 15, 1985

Training or Education:
Bachelor of Science in Music (Voice) and Stringed Instrument Technology: Indiana University 1985. Further repair training: Peter Horn, 1998; Bow making: University of New Hampshire Summer Institute, 2004.

Where are you from originally?
I was born in Columbus, Indiana. My family moved to Odessa, Texas when I was one year old. We lived there until my ninth grade year, at which time we moved to Corsicana, Texas for two years (freshman and sophomore years of high school). My junior year was spent back in Columbus, Indiana; and I finished off my senior year in North Vernon, Indiana. Indiana University happened after four years playing with real Tonka trucks in a crushed stone quarry in Jennings county, Indiana. IU was fun and interesting as a 21 year old freshman. Happily, the string technology degree program was there for me to begin a life’s work. At the present time, I am grudgingly growing up in Noblesville Indiana with my wife and watching my three kids surpass my understanding of the world in their various college endeavors.

What instruments do you play?
I play violin, viola, and cello: minimally. Stringed bass and guitar: preferably. I can play the piano the way I want to--not necessarily how classically trained pianists would choose to play, but it pleases me and suits my purpose. I still sing with gusto, and the ukelele is still just fun. Other instruments perhaps...I just haven’t had the opportunity to try yet.

What groups do/did you play with?
The Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, Edyvean Theater pit orchestra, Carmel Symphony, Elizaville Baptist Church orchestra and handbell choir, Noblesville Methodist Church Community theater and pit orchestra, Tipton Community theater.

What do you enjoy most about being a technician?
Repairing the violin family instruments. It is still a challenging and fullfilling vocation.

What is the most unusual repair you’ve had to deal with?
Restoring two specific violins: one, which was sound fortified with rattlesnake rattles, and the second, on which the back, neck, and ribs were carved from a single solid piece of maple.

What is your most memorable musical experience?
The most memorable was a one month rehearsal and performance of Handel’s Messiah with the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir and The Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Robert Porco from Indiana University. The second most memorable is the season spent with the Carmel Symphony.

E-mail: btongate@paigesmusic.com

Position: Woodwind Technician

Start Date: May 23, 1989

Training or Education:
I Have a B.S. in music from the University of Indianapolis

Where are you from originally:
I grew up in Indianapolis.

What instruments do you play:
Saxophone

What groups do/did you play with:
Indianapolis Jazz Orchestra, Rhythm 8 ,Fairway Jazz Quartet Tom Sullivan Jazz Trio.

What do you enjoy most about being a technician:
Knowing that when an instrument that I have worked on leaves the store it is in top playing condition.

What is the most unusual repair you’ve had to deal with:
Trying to repad a clarinet that had been super glued together.

What is your most memorable musical experience:
Seeing Micheal Brecker live in a small Jazz club for the first time.

E-mail: kmoniaci@paigesmusic.com

Position: Woodwind Technician

Start Date: June 2012

Training or Education:
Bachelor of Music in Bassoon Performance, University of Michigan
Master of Music in Bassoon Performance, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music
Attended Red Wing Repair School
Ongoing bassoon repair apprenticeship with Paul Nordby

Where are you from originally:
Clarkston, Michigan

What instruments do you play:
Bassoon

What groups do/did you play with:
Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra, Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, Quintasaurus Rex, many freelance gigs

What do you enjoy most about being a technician:
I get to solve puzzles all day long!

What is your most memorable musical experience:
Playing principal in Shostakovich Symphony #9, which has the longest bassoon solo in the orchestral repertoire.

E-mail: mwilson@paigesmusic.com

Position: Woodwind Repair Technician

Start Date: August 6, 1981

Training or Education:
- Hamilton Southeastern High School
- J. Everett Light Career Center - Certificates in Computer Programming & Operations
- Religious Studies Major IU/IUPUI
- Woodwind Repair Apprenticeship with Tim Roethler

Where are you from originally:
Third planet from the Sun. I was born and lived in Indianapolis, Indiana for the first two years of my life. At that point, my folks decided to “move to the country”. We lived in the Fishers, Indiana area before Fishers had any stoplights.

What instruments do you play:
I studied piano at an early age, but not with the dedication I should have. It gave me a good foundation for the rest of my musical experimentations. In fifth grade I started studying trombone under the guidance of Richard "Doc" Lieber. That was my introduction to the bass clef! During high school I started experimenting with bass guitar and string bass. I studied briefly with Wayne Hall, but I am mostly self-taught. I still own a trombone, but it hasn't seen the light of day for many years. I consider myself a bass player.

What groups do/did you play with:
Dan Daughtery Band, Frank Dean, The HillWilliams, Terry Kimbrall, Yank Rachell, Carrie Newcomer, Andra Faye Hinkle, Randy Martin & Sagebrush, Terry Mills, Lost River Band, Numerous "garage bands" during high school.

What do you enjoy most about being a technician:
The people I work with.

What is the most unusual repair you’ve had to deal with:
An oboe with a swab and a chop stick lodged into the bore of the upper joint. When it comes to oddities, it is amazing what students carry around in their cases and don't bother to remove before sending them in for repair.

What is your most memorable musical experience:
-There have been many, so it is hard to choose a favorite. Seeing Stevie Ray Vaughan at Clowes Hall 4th row center ranks right up near the top.
- Next would probably be experiencing Victor Wooten’s ‘Soul Circus’ tour up close and personal at a very small venue. After a little technical difficulty during the opening song, Victor and the Wooten brothers rocked the house!
- Playing a New Year’s Eve gig with the Dan Daughtery Band in a little club, that shall remain unnamed, also ranks highly. We were booked as a “country band” that night. We had been dealing with a very inebriated patron who kept approaching the stage and yelling “I bet you can’t play any Jimi Hendrix!” We were in the midst of playing a George Jones tune when “our friend” approached the stage again. It was at this time that Dan turned to the rest of the band and called out Purple Haze. Without missing a beat we tore into a splendid rendition of Hendrix’s Purple Haze; complete with guitar solos featuring Dan playing with his teeth, behind his head and behind his back. Needless to say, our “friend” left us alone the rest of the night.

What are your interests outside of music:
I thoroughly enjoy riding anything with two wheels. Bicycles, motorcycles, they are all fun. I also participate in 18th and early 19th Century re-enactment events. I enjoy plying the waters of the planet with a whitewater kayak, sea kayak or canoe. My favorite place to paddle is the waters of Lake Superior; it is a magical place.

What is your favorite quote:
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion;
To be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich;
To study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly;
To listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart;
To bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never.
To let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.
This is to be my symphony.

William Henry Channing (1810-1884)

E-mail: shobson@paigesmusic.com

Position: Woodwind Repair Technician

Start Date: August 28, 1995

Training or Education:
BM Music Education, Jazz Studies minor--Ball Sate University, MM Saxophone performance, Jazz Dept., Graduate Assistant--University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music

Where are you from originally:
Brownsburg, Indiana

What instruments do you play:
tenor sax, alto sax, soprano sax, bari sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute

What groups do/did you play with:
Indianapolis Jazz Orchestra (see indyjazz.org), Jimmy Dorsey and Guy Lombardo pickup gigs, various free-lance jobs with several bands over the years.

What do you enjoy most about being a technician:
I love to fix things that are broken and to improve on them. I am very interested as to how things work (not just musical instruments).

What is the most unusual repair you’ve had to deal with:
I hate working on instruments that have cat urine on them. (Thankfully they are relatively rare.) I have also restored instruments that have been through fires.

What is your most memorable musical experience:
The times spent with my first saxophone teacher. He taught me much more than just music and always treated me as a member of his own family.

E-mail: sgrimes@paigesmusic.com

Position: woodwind repair technician

Start Date: June 30, 1993

Training or Education:
a few years of college, Band Instrument Repair course at Red Wing Tech- graduated class of ‘93

Where are you from originally:
Minneapolis Minnesota area

What instruments do you play:
Euphonium, trombone, voice

What groups do/did you play with:
Army Band experience: 74th Army Band, Ft. Benjamin Harrison; 2nd Infantry Division Band, Camp Casey, Korea; 34th Infantry Division Band- Minnesota Army National Guard, 38th I.D. National Guard Band, Indiana. Current member of Circle City Sound Barbershop Chorus, Indianapolis IN chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society.

What do you enjoy most about being a technician:
I like the variety I have repairing all the different woodwind instruments. Sometimes I’ll open a case, look at a horn, and think “How did they do that?” Performing normal maintenance is an important part of my job, but when there is damage done to the horn, I enjoy the challenge of making the horn play again.

What is the most unusual repair you’ve had to deal with:
An old alto sax came into the shop with a crushed neck, and a new replacement neck was not available. One of our parts suppliers had an old neck blank (formed neck body) in stock. I was able to fabricate a replacement neck with the neck blank and the parts off the old neck. The customer was delighted to have the horn playing again. That repair was interesting, and challenging!

E-mail: sruppert@paigesmusic.com

Position: Woodwind Repair Technician

Start Date: July 3, 2003

Training or Education:
- Former co-owner Weast Music....With Weast for 25 yrs....In music business for 50yrs
- Trained at Allied Band Instrument Repair School in late 60’s

Where are you from originally:
Lafayette, IN

What instruments do you play:
Percussion....Retired

What groups do/did you play with:
Ran sound for The Lafayette Citizens Band also past VP of operations for same group

What do you enjoy most about being a technician:
Taking something that is badly damaged and making it a playable instrument again....Also have worked at ISSMA state solo an ensemble contest for the past 30yrs (repairing) and to see the happy faces on the students you help throughout the day,is very rewarding.

What is the most unusual repair you’ve had to deal with:
There are so many it’s hard to pick one most memorable

What is your most memorable musical experience:
Hunkering down outside the Metropole Bar in NY City (underaged) to see Gene Krupa play.

E-mail: sguyer@paigesmusic .com

Position: Brass Repair Tech.

Start Date: June 1, 1998

Training or Education:
Went to Redwing Technical school and studied instrument repair

Where are you from originally:
Danville, IN

What instruments do you play:
I am a Vocal Tenor

What groups do/did you play with:
Union Station Track Side Troop

What do you enjoy most about being a technician:
I like the hands on work of solving problems and making things look right again and play right again.

What is the most unusual repair you’ve had to deal with:
I installed a trumpet bell on an old recording Violin in order to replace it’s original bell.

What is your most memorable musical experience:
Seeing Simon and Garfunkel in concert together.

E-mail: jvanderha@paigesmusic.com

Position: Brass Technician

Training or Education:
Apprenticed at The Windsmith in San Diego. Attended San Diego State University and Butler University for Music Performance. Graduated from Minnesota State College-Southeast Technical Red Wing studied Band Instrument Repair.

Where are you from originally:
Carlsbad, CA

What instruments do you play:
French Horn

What groups do/did you play with:
Currently I play with the Indianapolis Brass Choir, Kokomo Park Band and Kokomo Symphony. I am a sub with the Carmel Symphony and the Indiana Wind Symphony. I also freelanced in San Diego and Minnesota.

What do you enjoy most about being a technician:
I enjoy being able to solve problems and making an instrument play better than when it came in.

What is your most memorable musical experience:
I was fortunate enough to listen to the Gewandhaus Orchestra play Beethoven 9 on New Year’s Eve in Leipzig, Germany. I also was able to hear Phil Meyers perform Mahler 5 when The New York Philharmonic played in Chicago.

E-mail: ddezarn@paigesmusic .com

Position: String Instrument Technician

Start Date: June 2011

Training or Education:
Graduated from Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery in January of 2002. Apprenticed under Randy Wood. Graduated from IU Jacobs School of Music with an A.S. in String Instrument Technology.

Where are you from originally:
Winamac, IN

What instruments do you play:
Bass guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, and minimal violin.

What do you enjoy most about being a technician:
I like to help keep people making music and bringing instruments back to life.

What is the most unusual repair you’ve had to deal with:
Copying the inlay on a pre-war Gibson banjo and shrinking it down to inlay it on a banjolin. It was a little miniature copy.

What is your most memorable musical experience:
Too many to list, but getting backstage at a BB King show without backstage passes was pretty cool.

E-mail: fwithrow@paigesmusic .com

Position: Stringed Instrument Prep

Start Date: October 2010

Training or Education:
Studied string bass as a music performance major at Indiana State University and University of Indianapolis. Apprenticed in string repair with Eugene Crouse in South Bend, IN and Tom May at Paige's Music.

Where are you from originally:
I was born in Elkhart, IN and grew up in South Bend, IN. I moved to Indianapolis in 1978.

What instruments do you play:
I play string bass and electric bass.

What groups do/did you play with:
I have been a professional musician for my entire adult life, primarily freelancing. I have been fortunate enough to play with most of the top musicians in the area.

What do you enjoy most about being a technician:
I enjoy the entire process of making an instrument as attractive and playable as possible.

What is the most unusual repair you’ve had to deal with:
I mostly address the simpler repairs on the instruments that cross my bench, deferring to Tom or Derek on the tougher cases. But it never ceases to amaze me what I might find inside a violin or cello...mostly items that don't belong there...gum wrappers, etc.

What is your most memorable musical experience:
I had the good fortune to tour Japan for two weeks in 1999 with a really good big band out of Chicago.

E-mail: jsturm@paigesmusic.com

Position: Instrument Prep

Training or Education:
Attended Millikin University in Decatur, Ill & studied Commercial Music. Graduated from Lawrence North HS.in Indianapolis, IN.

Where are you from originally:
Lawrence, IN

What instruments do you play:
Trumpet, piano/keyboard, electric & acoustic guitar, drum set

What groups do/did you play with:
The Sturm Family Band (bluegrass), The Middle Men (ska band), church praise band, various jazz bands, jazz combo groups, concert bands, Indianapolis trumpet choir, brass ensembles, accompany my son on guitar for his bluegrass fiddle music competitions.

What do you enjoy most about being a technician:
The camaraderie of the repair shop - we really enjoy our work and each other!

What is your most memorable musical experience:
Playing trumpet for my sister's wedding. That was such an honor and it meant a lot to me to be a part of their day.

E-mail: srichards@paigesmusic.com

Position: Brass Repair Tech in Training

Training or Education:
I graduated from Marian University in 2014 with bachelors degree in music education.

Where are you from originally:
I come from rural Jay County Indiana, somewhere between the cities of Bryant and Portland.

What instruments do you play:
Tuba

What do you enjoy most about being a technician:
I enjoy the challenges that every day seem to bring and learning how to deal with them.

What is the most unusual repair you’ve had to deal with:
Although I’ve not had to deal with anything too out of the ordinary yet, I’ve been warned by my coworkers that my day is coming...

E-mail: wtincher@paigesmusic.com

Position: Repair Department Administrative Assistant

Start Date: December 2010

Training or Education:
Indiana State University- Bachelor of Science in Music Business

Where are you from originally:
Terre Haute, IN

What instruments do you play:
Tuba, Euphonium, Trombone

What groups do/did you play with:
Indianapolis Symphonic Band, America’s Hometown Band, Henry County Community Band

What do you enjoy most about being a technician:
Getting to witness first-hand the repair work done by my coworkers. It is amazing to me how they can make a (seemingly destroyed) instrument play again.

What is your most memorable musical experience:
Days after the September 11th attacks, the city of Terre Haute called on the ISU Marching Sycamores to play a service. With a days’ notice, the whole band cleared their schedule to perform. It was the most emotional performance I have ever been a part of.