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Musical Instrument Repair Service
Independence Music repairs all musical instruments.  Our standard repair policy is to notify you for your approval if the repair estimate will exceed $25, or if the technician identifies additional work beyond what what expected.  When a student who takes lessons from Independence School of Music or is an instrument rental customer of Independence Music School, we will give you a free loaner (subject to availability) while your instrument is in our shop.  All others may rent a loaner for $10 while your instrument is in our shop.

Musical Instrument Repair Depot - for out of town musicians
We operate an excellent off-site low cost musical instrument repair center that can bring your quality musical instrument back to playable condition for a fraction of the cost of a standard music store repair bill.  Our certified technicians will make your repaired musical instrument "like-new".  If you, we will even rebuild a quality musical instrument to make it better than it was when it was new.  (recommendation:  don't bother to repair an instrument that was never a quality instrument to begin with)

If you do not live in the Cleveland, Ohio area, and you have any brass, woodwind, or stringed instrument in need of repair, you can get a free estimate from Independence Music repair depot.  We will give you a full estimate, and let you know the cost of what the instrument needs to fix the major problems and make it playable.  We will also give you an estimate to do those optional things to bring your musical instrument back to its fullest potential.

If you decide not to have us do the repair, we ship it back to you by UPS, and you only pay the cost of shipping and a $5 handling fee.  Our certified musical instrument repair center depot will repair your brass, woodwind or string instrument for a fraction of the cost of a music store repair, and do a better job.  We can promise this, because our repair technicians repair hundreds of instruments, and a typical music store might only do a few instrument repairs per month. Often music stores have high school students or music teachers doing repairs in the back room.  If you take in an older flute, clarinet or saxophone, make sure the music store knows how to inspect for mites, a very common problem with older instruments that have been in storage.

We can also take in your instrument, check it out, tune you musical instrument if necessary, properly clean the instrument, and inspect it to see if there are any problems.  This can be done for a nominal fee.

The Musical instruments we repair include:
Violin Repair - Cello Repair - Clarinet Repair
Saxophone Repair - Clarinet Repair - Flute Repair
Drum Repair - Drum Head Replacement - Drum Tuning
Trumpet Repair - French Horn Repair - Trombone Repair - Tuba Repair

The standard in-store charge for putting new strings and tuning your string instrument is $5 plus the cost of the strings (starting at $5 for a set of guitar strings).  We charge $5 to tune your stringed instrument, however you may need to leave it over night if we are busy.  It is a good idea to ask your teacher to show you how to tune your own instrument during your lesson time.  We sell a very good tuner that will make it very easy for you to keep your own instrument in tune.

Woodwind Repair:
Pad Replacement
Key work Adjustments
Dent work
Custom Work
Tenon Corks/Adjustments
Soldering
Tone Hole Leveling
Overhauls
Lacquering/Plating
Cleaning
Buffing
Ultrasonic Cleaning (Instrument Body)

Brass repair:
Dent work
Valve work
Slide work
Soldering
Custom Work
Lacquering/Plating
Stuck Slides, Valve caps, Mouthpieces, Etc
Ultrasonic Cleaning
Buffing
Polishing

Custom Modifications
For example, Independence Music Repair Center offers custom trumpet work to accommodate the needs of trumpet players.  Custom trumpet modifications include valve alignments, custom plating, custom bracing, heavy wall lead pipes, as well as complete horn modification designed to improve the efficiency of your brass instrument.  All of our brass work is done by or supervised by Ian Indorf.  Ian is a member of NAPBIRT and is also Straubinger certified. 

Ian has Bachelor of Music degrees in both Trumpet Performance and Jazz Studies from The University of Akron. He has a Master's of Music degree in Trumpet Performance from Kent State University. He has toured nationally and internationally with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, performed for two US Presidential Inaugural Balls in Washington DC, and actively freelances in the NE Ohio region. He has performed with over 100 musical groups in the area, and frequently travels to Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, and New York City to perform. In the past, Ian has also maintained a private studio of over 60 students, assisted public school music programs for over 14 years, directed music for a church for 4 years, and organized many other musical groups throughout the years. In addition Ian has also become active as a sound engineer with various musical groups including society bands, Latino groups, Jewish orchestras, and opera productions. . Currently Ian freelances, repairs instruments, and directs the Jazz Band at Mt. Union College

If you are interested in having your Trumpet repaired or modified, please call or e-mail us so that we can discuss your ideas, and work with you to create a horn which you will love.

• Bell Crook and Tuning Slide Braces
• Bell to Leadpipe Brace
• Heavy Wall Leadpipe Cover
• Valve Alignment
• Fully Integrated Mouthpiece

Silver, and Gold plating is available for all instruments, as well as custom modifications. Pricing of plating is dependant on instrument, as well as plating desired, so if you are interested please contact us directly and we will give you a quote.

We also do custom modifications and repairs on all brass and woodwind instruments which are not listed, which will be quoted on an individual basis