Keeping students’ musical dreams alive a labor of love in Oscar-nominated ‘The Last Repair Shop’
ELLY GRIMM
• Leader & Times
I’ve made no secret here of my time being involved in band and music while I was in school and recently while I was searching for something to watch on Disney+, I came across a documentary that brought back some of those memories.
“The Last Repair Shop,” which clocks in at 40 minutes, focuses on a downtown Los Angeles shop where a handful of devoted craftspeople keep more than 80,000 student instruments in repair, which has been open for more than 60 years. I initially thought it would be more of a “day in the life” sort of feature and show the employees actually working on repairs and showing what a regular day in the shop looks like, but this was one of the times I was actually kind of happy to be proven wrong, because it’s SO much more than that.

