In The News: Anaheim’s Kanstul Makes Trumpets, Others By Hand

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Zigmant “Zig” Kanstul is decidedly old school.

The 78-year-old runs Kanstul Musical Instruments in Anaheim where his 45 or so workers make brass instruments with acids, soldering irons, baseball bats, Murphy’s oil soap and tar.

Kanstul himself works on the floor fashioning tubas, trombones, Mariachi trumpets and other brass wind instruments the old-fashioned way—by hand.

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Posted by on Sunday, February 10th, 2008. Filed under Current News.