Questions about restoring an instrument from damage to a playable or like-new condition.
Questions about repairing instruments. Questions with this tag should not include questions about modifying instruments.
Questions tagged [repair]
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How do you successfully share another drummer's kit at a show?
The typical indie band showcase has 2 or 3 bands on a bill, and it usually makes logistic sense to share a backline (drums, bass amp, and maybe guitar amps). Some stage managers, or entire festivals, will even insist upon it.
As a drummer, this…
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Guitar produces hum due to poor soldering
Is it possible that a guitar could produce a low hum after replacing a pickup? I own a guitar that I (poorly) replaced a pickup on when I first started playing, and I was wondering if there was some sort of grounding that I could have messed up…
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Upon loading a track, the CDJ 2000 automatically goes through very quickly (~5 sec per one min of track)
Whenever I load a new track, it automatically goes through very quickly, unless I touch the jog, in which case everything goes back to normal:
Any idea what could occur this issue to appear and how to fix it?
Franck Dernoncourt
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How do I fix a loose joint in a plastic recorder?
Another member of my band has a set of plastic recorders that are at least 20 years old and played often. Similar to this one:
They're plastic, not wood, so shouldn't be subject to fluctuations from weather. But the joints (particularly the ones…
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I broke my G string and my other 3 strings are out of tune too
It’s Thanksgiving break right now and I have a Christmas concert next Saturday December 4th, so I brought it over to my Abuela’s house to practice.
However, my grandparents keep the house hot, so my room is humid and I forgot to put my violin in a…
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How much does it cost on average to clean a clarinet?
I was wondering on average, how much does it cost to clean up a clarinet. Someone borrowed my instrument that I haven't touched in about 20 years. I didn't think to clean it up, replace cork, pads, etc. before lending it out. The person I'm…
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How do I fix a broken bridge pin without going to the guitar shop?
Are there any tools cheap from eBay that
I can use? Or anything common from around
the house? And a tutorial.
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Repairing cymbals?
I have a bunch of cymbals that are in various fairly poor states of repair. One has a few small cracks near the rim. One is just bent out of shape entirely (I don't know how that happened).
Is it possible to hammer a bent cymbal back into shape? If…
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Reinforcing an acoustic guitar's bridge
Background:
I recently found a guitar in a dumpster, a steel-string acoustic. It's not the best guitar--an Galveston WJ-750, probably discarded by someone who gave up on guitar lessons--but it has a decent sound, and I think I can find a home for…
Goodbye Stack Exchange
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Crash cymbal turned green
What makes it green? Any way to clean this? It looks so much like old Chinese pottery.
user53472
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Saxophone sometimes out of tune by nearly a fourth
Our band's saxophonist has a bizzare intermittent fault with his soprano sax (so normally uses his tenor or alto sax).
Sometimes it's fine and sings beautifully, but other times it'll be out of tune by between a major third and a fourth. It's a Bb…
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Cork in the base of a violin's chin rest
Recently, all the cork that was between the base of my violin's chin rest and the instrument's body has been rubbed off and, as a result, the chin rest is "flowing around" the lower left part of the instrument's body. The time I realized this was…
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New piano flaking near hitch pin
I recently purchased a new Yamaha C1X, and I noticed that the paint has started to flake off at various places after a few days, near the hitch pin (see picture).
This doesnt seem to affect the sound (yet), but just wanted to see if there are any…
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Strap button repair
One of the strap buttons on my bass is stripped. I’ve seen several methods for repairing this, all of which involved filling the hole with some bits of wood.
Insert matchsticks, toothpicks, or a dowel.
Optionally add cyanoacrylate or wood…
Bradd Szonye
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How do I fix the bridge on a Flea ukulele?
I have a Flea ukulele that I bought used several months ago. The bridge is starting to pull away from the top. Surprisingly, the uke still stays in tune and is quite playable, but I can't imagine it will stay that way for long. It is difficult to…
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