About Us
Canter Flute Repair is located in Beaverton, Oregon, serving the Portland and Vancouver metro area and beyond.
With many years experience, we can make your flute look and perform its best.
Our acoustical adjustments will often make your flute play and sound better than ever.
Darren Cook
Darren studied with the late and legendary flute repair technician Robert Gilchrist, and has been providing basic repairs privately for students of Coda Flutes for over 25 years. An experienced flutist, receiving his BMP in flute performance from the Harid Conservatory of Music, Darren has been in a programming career for a couple of decades while he maintained his private flute studio and status as freelancer and member of the Vancouver Symphony (Principal Piccolo). His decades of experience in programming and flute playing combine to help his problem-solving and innovation in flute repair.
Darren is Straubinger Certified, Muramatsu Certified, and a JS Engineering Gold Pad Technician.
Molly Duggan
Molly apprenticed under Darren Cook and has been learning to play and fix flutes along side studying flute performance at Portland State University. She was the Principal Flutist of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra for 2 years, won the MYS Young Artist Concerto Competition in 2019, and was a finalist in the Beaverton Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition in 2020. As the youngest technician to ever receive their Straubinger Certification, Molly continues to impress colleagues across the nation with her passion and skill and aims to better serve players in the Pacific Northwest.
Molly is Straubinger Certified, Muramatsu Certified, and a JS Engineering Gold Pad Technician.
When Darren met Molly, she wanted to learn repair right away in order to have a working instrument. Shortly after they had an opportunity to overhaul a student's intermediate flute before a major competition; the instrument came out playing perfectly and the dream of Canter Flute Repair was born.