NPR: This shop fixes student instruments for free. Now, a music legend is chipping in

By Jonaki Mehta

At a warehouse in an industrial corridor of downtown Los Angeles, a handful of technicians are hunched over their brightly lit workstations, tinkering with saxophones, violins, and pianos.

This facility is one of the only remaining publicly funded repair shops for musical instruments in the country. Thousands of cases lay neatly stacked across tall shelves, ready to be shipped to schools across the nation’s second largest school district, Los Angeles Unified (LAUSD). These district-owned instruments and the repairs are a free service to students here.

Now, the facility is getting a $1 million dollar donation from legendary musician, producer and philanthropist Herb Alpert, who got his start playing trumpet in this very school district.

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