Herb Alpert got his start playing trumpet in L.A.'s public schools. He wants to help make that "magic" possible for students.

“The Last Repair Shop” focuses on the people who maintain the 140,000 musical instruments owned by Los Angeles Unified School District public schools. Funding for music and arts education has been ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A new documentary short takes us inside "The Last Repair Shop." It's from filmmakers Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers, who received an Oscar nomination in 2020 for their ...

LOS ANGELES -- Anyone who's ever played an instrument knows how life-changing music can be. A dozen people in the nation's second-largest school district work tirelessly to keep the melodies playing ...

The short documentary “The Last Repair Shop” took home the gold at this year’s Academy Awards. It was the first Oscar win for the Los Angeles Times, who co-distributed the doc with Searchlight.

The TUSD musical instrument repair shop is one of just a few across the country that exclusively services instruments for schools. TUCSON, Ariz. — There's a small team at the Tucson Unified School ...

Tim Adelson spends his workdays repairing musical instruments for students across the Clark County School District. The reason he does it? He wants to ensure more students stay in music programs. “It ...

MARTIN COUNTY, Ky. (WSAZ) - They say music has the power to bring people together. Someone who preaches that message is Jim Webb, owner of his family’s music repair shop, “James E. Webb Musical Repair ...

For Avery McDaniel, the back-to-school season is the busiest time of year for his musical instrument repair and rental shop in Beloit, Wisconsin. McDaniel Music Repair’s business renting and repairing ...

It’s a Tuesday afternoon and Ricardo Chavarria sits next to Rick Oldham at a repair desk in Musician’s Repair and Sales in downtown Indianapolis, watching Oldham’s every move. He imitates the ...

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 ...