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Phillip Zavarella

I've been doing this work 42 years. I learned from my father; I'd watched him do it since I could remember. When I was in junior high school, I'd come home, and I had to overhaul two clarinets before I could do anything else. That's take it completely apart, buff it on a machine and make it look like new, then repad it and make it so it doesn't leak. Then he would come home and critique the work that I had done, and finally it was like, "Great. Perfect." That didn't happen overnight, of course. Then you start with the saxophones and flutes.