About Me
- JoAnn Gaunt
- Leawood, Kansas, United States
- Before deciding to become a Band Instrument Repair Tech, I studied music at Fort Hays State University (Hays, Kansas). I received my B.A. in music from them. There I studied Saxophone and Clarinet under Dr. Kristen Pisano. I also studied voice under Dr. Joe Perniciaro, and Jazz Improvisation under Brad Dawson. I am a member of Sigma Alpha Iota, a music fraternity, and I served as the FHSU chapter Vice President of Rituals. While in high school I earned many of my undergraduate hours at Barton County Community College. There I studied saxophone with Steven Lueth and piano with Karole Erickson. I also graduated with a diploma of Band Instrument Repair from Southeast Technical College in Red Wing, Minnesota in 2011.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Brass class ended well. I spent the rest of the week working on a trumpet that belongs to one of the lunch ladies at school! It is a King 601. It had stuck slides, stuck valve caps, red rot in the mouth pipe, and dents that needed to be removed. I unstuck everything except for the main & second tuning slides and then chem flushed it. After three days with penetrating oil the slides still had not moved so I cleaned the trumpet in the ultrasonic cleaner. After the cleaning, more penetration oil, and some pulling tools I got both slides unstuck. I had to replace the mouth pipe because the red rot was so bad. I used a silver plated mouth pipe that was an extra in the shop in order to save her some money. The king outer tuning slide did not go on that pipe as far as the pipe's original one, so I had to spot plate it. It was so neat!!!! I'm not finished with the project, but I will work on it when I return to brass class!
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