About Us

John Ingram and Bernhard Brauns have been doing business as Ingram and Brauns Musik Shoppe in Modesto and the surrounding since 1985.(See Modesto Bee article “Music Men” dated July 26, 2004)

We have 3 stores, two in Modesto and one in Pleasanton.  Our original location on Yosemite Blvd. is a state of the art full service repair facility that services many of the professional players in the area and all over the United States.  All three of our stores carry a full line of instruments from all of the major manufacturers, including: Yamaha, Getzen, Conn, Selmer, Ludwig, Deagan, Yanagisawa, Musser, Bach, Gretsch, Hohner, Zildjian and many others.  We also carry a fine selection of sheet music.

Bernhard Brauns received his Comprehensive Band Instrument Repair certification from Allied Music Corporation, which was known as one of the most prestigious repair facilities in the nation.  He is also a certified Professional Straubinger technician and has studied with such notables as Bob Getzen, Jonathon Lindell, David Straubinger and Eddie Strege (Badger State Repair).  He is also a certified bench jeweler.  He is an accomplished trumpet player.

His numerous awards and certificates include:

Allied Music Corporation Comprehensive Band

Instrument Repair Course Certification                               1986

Straubinger Professional Installation Certification            2000

Jonathon L1ndell Master Flute Maker: Overhaul &

Mechanical Professional Flute Repair Course                    2001

Vermont Guild of Flute Making

Award of Excellence in Flute Building                                2001

Revers Academy of Jewelry Arts

Jewelry Technician                                                                   2002

JA Bench Jeweler Certification                                              2002

John Ingram, like Bernhard Brauns,  is a Bay Area native.  He received his B.A. and Teaching Credential from Cal-State College at Hayward(now CSU-East Bay).  He taught Music in the Hayward Schools from 1968-86 and in the valley town of Hughson from 1988-1993.  He also taught at Pleasanton Middle School from 2005-2007.  He is the current conductor of the Livermore-Pleasanton  Youth Outreach Symphony.