Case’s Music is a Play Condition repair shop, focusing on returning instruments to clean and playable conditions. All instruments that are worked on will be play-tested before leaving to ensure a quality of repair.
Below is a list of some of the repair services we offer:
Woodwind Repair
- Level leaking pads
- Replace damaged key corks and felts
- Regulate and adjust
- Pad replacement as necessary
- Miscellaneous repairs as necessary
- Total disassembly and chemical cleaning
- Install new pads, corks and felts
- Refit tenon as necessary
- Regulate and adjust
Complete overhauls include repad work, along with dent removal and polishing as required. Overhauls must be assessed on an individual basis.
Individual services can be performed upon request. They include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Tenon cork replacement
- Tenon fitting
- Head cork replacement
- Spring replacement
- Soldering
- Key removal and body cleaning
Parts, excessive dent work, body alignment, soldering and key fitting are extra services that must be assessed on an individual basis.
Brasswind Repair
- Disassemble instrument and inspect
- Sterilize in detergent
- Chemically treat corrosion
- Replace corks, felts and springs as necessary
- Align and adjust pistons and rotors
- Lubricate
Overhauls must be assessed on an individual basis.
- Body alignment
- Remove accessible dents
- Replace corks, felts and springs as necessary
- Align and adjust pistons and rotors
- Lubricate
Individual services can be performed upon request. They include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Dent removal
- Stuck parts removal
- Mouthpipe replacement
- Piston and casing repair
- Soldering
Parts and services must be assessed on an individual basis.
Fretted Instrument Repair
- String change
- Set action
- Truss rod adjustment
- Pickup replacement
- Hand cut nuts
- Hand cut saddles
- Machine head replacement
- Strap button installation
- Acoustic pickup installation
- Crack and chip repair
- Repair lifting bridge
- Repair broken headstock
- Re-surface fingerboard
- Level frets
- Fret polish
- Adjust neck angle
- Wiring of electronics
- Custom wiring
- Properly float a trem system
- Install and set up a D-Tuna
- Install Bigsby style trem systems
- Install fret markers
- Custom fret marker inlay
- Complete guitar refinishing
Our Techs
Jake Rendell
woodwind & brasswind repair
Jeff Gray
fretted instrument repair
