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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Explore Carroll: Stu's Music in Westminster collecting musical instruments for troops overseas

Explore Carroll: Stu's Music in Westminster collecting musical instruments for troops overseas

Stu's Music in Westminster collecting musical instruments for troops overseas

Sending a few notes of support to Afghanistan

By Katie V. Jones Posted 5/08/11 http://www.explorecarroll.com/news/5405/sending-few-notes-support-afghanistan/

As Charlie Phillips pulled the main slide of the trombone before him, a low scraping metal sound emitted from the instrument.

After examining the trombone carefully, Phillips carefully put it back in its case, satisfied.

"A trombone shouldn't sound like that," admitted Phillips, who repairs brass instruments for Stu's Music Shop, in Westminster.

"The major problem here is cleaning it," he said. "There are not many dents. If they're all like this, I'm in luck."
Since the end of April, Phillips and Jim Bankard, who repairs woodwind instruments, have been fixing and fine-tuning instruments that have been donated at Stu's Music, to be sent to Navy Seabees in Afghanistan.

"We've got a pretty nice selection," said Don Myers, co-owner of Stu's, of the instruments. "We get a couple per day. They should be able to make a band."
Last month, Myers was contacted by Chaplain Nathan Boon, for Navy Mobile Construction Battalion 26, deployed at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, who was seeking instruments for his ministry "Holy Notes," which Boon described an e-mail as "a time to learn, play and make a joyful noise." ... http://www.explorecarroll.com/news/5405/sending-few-notes-support-afghanistan/


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