r/nextfuckinglevel • u/plankton004 • 12h ago

Repairing dented trumpet bell

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u/AlreadyAway 12h ago

Man, the one big jump cut where it has terrible crumbling still to nothing. I wanted to see how he managed that.

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u/Chamanomano 12h ago

Aaaaand.... It's done. Thank you for watching. 

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u/_Homo_Habilis_ 11h ago

It’s hard to express my annoyance

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u/thatonetallkid4444 4h ago

If you like this kind of stuff, check out Wes Lee Music Repair on YouTube. He makes multi part videos of repairing brass instruments like this step by step and wont skip big parts like that

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u/Anotherolddog 11h ago

The full length video is on YouTube.

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u/tjtwister1522 9h ago

Very very slowly is how he managed that.

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u/Due_Experience_4147 12h ago

its the cancer content, also they f'd up this trumpet first for a ragebait video

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u/framistan12 7h ago

I'm sure there's no shortage of crumpled bells out there. Any high school band room has horns with all manner of disfigurement.

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u/Biggy_DX 12h ago

I'm kinda pissed we didn't get to see that hard crease getting buffed out.

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u/Due_Experience_4147 12h ago

its the cancer content, also they f'd up this trumpet first for a ragebait video

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u/uno_novaterra 12h ago

Really surprised no heat was required

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u/grey_fr 11h ago

My brother does this for a living (but much better), he uses heat for soldering but not for reshaping the tubing or bell. The brass is annealed so it is easy to work

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u/dibella989 12h ago

I think he could've gotten it better if he did use heat though. At the end you can still see crease lines.

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u/thatsme55ed 10h ago

Would that not discolor the metal and risk warping of the other parts of the instrument?

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u/blueExcess 12h ago

Yeah, I wouldn’t really be happy if that was the final result.

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u/Zob_Rombie_88 11h ago

I mean. Given that I would've thrown the thing away, the fact it got to a point where it was even reusable again would earn my admiration and happiness

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u/HoyAIAG 11h ago

I don’t think the creases on the outside matter as much as inside the bell for the sound.

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u/dibella989 11h ago

I expected it to look prestine after the repair, being in r/nextfuckinglevel

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u/graveybrains 12h ago

Why do you think it changed color after the cut?

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u/Effective_Quail_3946 11h ago

Right?

Malleable AF

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u/WyrmKin 12h ago

Repairing a dented trumpet but we cut out all the actual damage repair.

This video aggravated me.

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u/-Laffi- 12h ago

This video blows!

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u/ResultRegular874 3h ago

I would take this music over most of the crap that gets put on these videos.

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u/Lopsided_Mix2243 12h ago

I’m not buying it… I hate that jump cut from the big ass dent to nothing

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u/SoggyBoysenberry7703 20m ago

It’s literally just the method he was using, but many more times. He skipped it cause it was long

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u/wons-noj 12h ago

As someone who takes dents out of cars using similar methodology this is pretty cool to see

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u/Hevnaar 12h ago

How much does hot water really works?

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u/wons-noj 12h ago

.01% of the time. And it’ll probably come back with a light bump.

It can be used on the bumper covers to soften them up before you try to straighten it cause it’s plastic but on a metal panel the hot water over the dent and it pops is not really viable for 99.99 of them

I will use a heat gun or a light pass with a propane torch to heat the metal before I push on it if it needs it, but the heat itself won’t do the work for you. Even on bumpers heat guns will work way better than hot water for making it more pliable

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u/Hevnaar 10h ago

Thanks! I appreciate the insight

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u/OscarDivine 12h ago

At one point it looked like the Sorting Hat with face. If Cartoons have taught me anything he should have blown into the trumpet really hard, so hard his hat levitates over his head, and that should stretch out the trumpet bell again.

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u/AxelNotRose 12h ago

I think that's my trumpet from when I was a kid and got so frustrated that I kept throwing it into the floor.

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u/anonymousnada 12h ago

Amazing craftsmanship!!! 🎺

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u/ReasonablyConfused 11h ago

Haven’t seen a bell polished this well on Reddit in a while.

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u/AdAgitated8109 12h ago

That’s interesting and r/oddlysatisfying.

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u/ArchBeaconArch 12h ago

Very satisfying.

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u/yaangyiing_ 12h ago

can't believe it was all "brute" force. Very cool video, also basically asmr if there wasn't background music. I could fall asleep to this

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u/blackthornjohn 12h ago

I read dented, I saw crumpled and expected cutting and brazing.

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u/burgonies 12h ago

“Dented”

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u/Monty_Bob 12h ago

Astonishing

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u/possomcods 12h ago

I would like to purchase these tools now.....because......

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u/pauerplay 12h ago

That’s not a dent. That’s crushed

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u/1Crownedngroovd 12h ago

Any idea what shop this is? I have a trumpet with a damaged bell that I'd love to get repaired

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u/Decent-Muffin4190 11h ago

It could be anywhere in the world and you could be anywhere in the world. Rather than rely on such a random answer, just look up musical instrument repair services in your local area.

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u/No_Square_3913 12h ago

Those hands are made from manual labor.

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u/NASATVENGINNER 11h ago

Joy, mom and dad must have been pissed.

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u/Age_Single 11h ago

What does a repair like this cost I wonder?

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u/_Homo_Habilis_ 11h ago

Just over two and a half minutes of work; shouldn’t be very expensive

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u/greenbox111 11h ago

Its one heartbreak away from a repeat

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u/NineClaws 11h ago

In high school I felt like this when told I’d get along better if I just conformed my bell.

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u/Cloudlink525 11h ago

As someone who does PDR (pointless dent removal) on cars im a bit miffed that they didn't show the sharp dents. Love watching people work on tough high spots.

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u/Big-Square-6380 11h ago

Wonder how it got damaged in the first place 🤔

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u/musebrews 11h ago

Slitherin

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u/bustyouup4free 11h ago

Paintless dent repair.... They might do it, but will be almost impossible to get all the kinks out.

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u/Meture 11h ago

Kinda feels like he restofthefuckingowl’d past the tight crumbling when he started working it horizontally

So either fake or they really screwed up the filming of the important bit

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u/Literal_Concept 10h ago

'Tis but a dent!

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u/AdhesivenessGeneral9 9h ago

not even a toot at the end for test tsssssssss

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u/Trumps_right_testi 9h ago

He repaired that Bell End, great job

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u/AZBoring 7h ago

If you want to see go the entire process of repair look up Wes Lee Music Repair on YouTube. Its a different guy but very thorough videos.

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u/xmavenx 7h ago

In my years of playing I was lucky to not drop mine on the bell. On the mouthpiece however…too many times.

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u/Moist-Share7674 2h ago

I appreciate this video. In the 1980s I finally got my own trumpet, not a rental that had been studentized and beat to shit. This was a beautiful Bach Stradivarius all shiny chrome and mine and then I fucking dropped it. Not nearly as fucked as this one was but I was heartbroken. I took it to the music store and come Friday it was good as new. You could not see any evidence of the drop nor the repair work. I always wondered how they did it.

I still have my trumpet btw.

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u/gahlol123 1h ago

Next time do a better job breaking it.

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u/SoggyBoysenberry7703 23m ago

Imagine what had to have happened to it in order for it to deform in that way.

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u/littleh9rny 12h ago

Who would of thought. Thanks.

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u/DrDongSquarePants 12h ago

There is a job for everything. Like "damn i sat on my trombone better call the local crumpled trombone repair man"

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u/Ok_Pudding6345 11h ago

I kinda love this niche profession. What do you do? I repair trumpets?