European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday March 24, 1991a stars and stripes Magazine fixing the Musica tiny shop patches up instruments for american schoolchildren the Light of a fluorescent tube beams out of a saxophone top photo to help one of the a Mirts of Europe look for imperfections in the keys. Above the tools of the Trade. Story and photos by Jim Derheim staff photographer we Trhan Bart bounces his baritone Down a 1 a / flight of stairs in Berlin or when Cindy my spills chocolate sauce on her clarinet in t t Comiso there a Only one place in Europe that can make these instruments play again. Its a sunlit shop in Griesheim Germany a town More famous for its onion fest than for its renown in american school circles As the sole musical repair facility for department of defense schools across Europe. A a we re the Mirts of says one third of a Trio of repair people a officially known As musical instrument repair technicians. C continued on i Ige 4
