Kansas City ‘Horn Doctor’ helps keep jazz alive by hand-crafting trumpets and tubas on Vine Street

Mike Corrigan is maintaining a centuries-old craft of making and repairing brass instruments. Musicians from Bruno Mars’ band,

Lincoln Center’s jazz series and others from around the world come to his shop, which is also working to train the next generation.

Across the historic intersection at Kansas City’s 12th and Vine streets, B.A.C. Musical Instruments operates as one of the few remaining American factories handcrafting professional brass instruments…

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