The Last Repair Shop
Director: Kris Bowers
Producer: Josh Rosenberg, Jeremy Lambert, Kris Bowers
Overview
In a warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain more than 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in America of its kind. Meet four unforgettable characters whose broken-and-repaired lives have been dedicated to bringing so much more than music to the schoolchildren of this city.
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Cast
Dana Atkinson
Self
Duane Michaels
Self
Paty Moreno
Self
Steve Bagmanyan
Self
Ken Burget
Self - The Piano Tuner
Vincent Womack
Self - L.A.U.S.D. Music Teacher Since 19987
Boris Karloff
The Monster (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tom Parker
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Elvis Presley
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Reviews
7.0CinemaSerf
March 22, 2024
This is quite an engaging documentary that introduces us to four specialist technicians who maintain some of the musical instruments that are provided free to pupils in the Los Angeles school system. Prefaced by a few words from each of the children who benefit from the violins, tubas, pianos and saxophones to name but…