Shop makes sure instruments sing Brothers, sister and mom run family business that keeps brass and woodwinds in tune

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | November 26, 1998| | Copyright

With a fine muslin cloth between his hands, Charles Melk cleans the inside slides of a gleaming, flower-engraved trumpet with a mixture of flour, pumice and water.

"I don't do a lot of these, but every once and awhile somebody wants something like this done," he says.

Across from Charles' work station in the repair shop at Melk Music, a squeak comes out of a saxophone as his brother Fred pressed a key. "What the heck was that?" says Fred. Fred, 42, and Charles Melk, 37, run Melk Music together with their mother, Ruth Ann, 65, at 8625 W. Adler St. Their sister Patricia helps manage the ...

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