The Last Repair Shop

2024 40 min ★ 7.5 Documentary, Music

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)

Details

Director

Kris Bowers

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

Breakwater Studios, LA Times Studios

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

March 22, 2024

★ 7/10

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 a few, we then meet four of the people - from a variety of interesting, sometim...