When Eric Drake sits at his workbench after the sun goes down, it can feel as if nothing else exists—only the sharp sound of metal striking metal and the windows echoing his reflection back to him.
In a way, that’s what his repair shop is: a little world of its own.
“The sound of the saxophone, number one, is like the most beautiful next to the human voice, I think,” he says of his favorite instrument. Saxology is Eric’s all-purpose saxophone supply and repair mecca in North Berkeley. He spends his evenings lost in concentration as he painstakingly fits brass pieces together. “It’s all sort of 19th century mechanical technology,” he explains.
