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The Last Repair Shop
2024 · Film · documentary · 40 min
Directed by Kris Bowers, Ben Proudfoot
In a warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain more than 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in America of its kind. Meet four unforgettable characters whose broken-and-repaired lives have been dedicated to bringing so much more than music to the schoolchildren of this city.
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> If it's actually just the seeing of a musical instrument being crushed that is so upsetting, then what are we to think of the countless instruments thrown in the trash after our elementary school kids give up on being guitarists, drummers, trombone players, or violinists. Why do we even let a 7 year old touch a violin if only 1 out of 100 ever play a level that isn't torture to listen to.
This reminded me of an interesting documentary from the LA Times on the LA Unified School District's musical instrument repair shop.
https://www.latimes.com/shortdocs/la-short-docs-the-last-repair-shop-123