Elliot Ward

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Elliot Ward

Owner of a small instrument repair workshop

“Wants instruments played, yet can't bear to lend his finest work.”

Elliot Ward, 38, runs a small instrument repair workshop and wants his restored pieces to be used, not admired. He struggles to lend his best work, even to you, his community lending project partner.

Elliot Ward, 38, runs a small instrument repair workshop out of a converted garage. He learned brass and woodwind repair as a teenager from a veteran armorer, then spent years in a Chicago music shop before coming home to work for himself. He wants restored instruments played, not admired, so he keeps a community lending project going alongside paid repairs. Money is tight and his best work rarely leaves the bench. As his lending project partner, you help him balance commercial jobs, school instruments, and the question of what he is willing to trust to other hands.

You are his community lending project partner, the person who fills out loan forms and argues with him about which instruments go out.

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