Please accompany us on a tour through our workshop and watch how more than 220 years of tradition contribute to making todays' top professional instruments.
Our knowledge in musical instrument making and our workshop traditions have been handed down to new generations of craftsmen and women since more than 220 years. Several Master craftsmen with years of experience form the core of our large team of specialists. Numerous certificates testify for excellent results in the education of apprentices.
- Bending of tubing with very thin walls requires first class materials and tools.
- Bending, calibrating and filing of a bell.
- Each part is calibrated in precision moulds to ensure it matches our dimensions exactly.
- Turning the slides
- Assembly of the valve section
- Inserting the rotors. The valves are perfectly adjusted.
- Attaching the seal of quality: the Alexander-Logo
- Fitting a tuba leadpipe by hand
- Removing dents in repair-instruments
- The perfect removal of dents is an artform of its own.
- Education
- Attaching a leadpipe
- Test-playing of an instrument in raw finish. Only experienced professional hornplayers and master craftsmen are allowed to test Alexander French Horns for all requirements of quality.
- All instruments are carefully polished by hand.
- Durable lacquer from epoxy resin preserves the beauty of the instrument.
- Final check by the Master Craftsman
- Despatch in custom-made packaging
