This page contains thrifty tips and advice to help you with repairing musical instruments.
Black Piano Keys are Faded?How do you restore the black keys on a piano. The black color is completely faded at the ends of the keys.
Keeping a Piano in TuneKeeping your piano in tune is the best way to ensure you can enjoying playing it whenever you like. This is a page about keeping a piano in tune.
Recovering a Tambourine?This is a page about recovering a tambourine. If the drumhead on your tambourine is worn or damaged you may be able to recover it.
Restoring a Clarinet's Finish?My husband and I bought a buffet lamp made from a real clarinet and made the mistake of cleaning it with furniture polish. This seems to have stripped away the ebonized finish of the instrument. So now the finish is a fuzzy gray in part, instead of a deep ebony black.
Removing Scratches from a Piano?How do you get small scratches and nicks out of an old dark mahogany console piano?
Repairing Chipped Lacquer Finish on a Guitar?My son's brand-new Fender electric guitar accidentally slipped out of our car's trunk and landed bottom-edge first on the pavement! The guitar now has one spot (about a half-inch-square) where the lacquer has chipped off and you can see the brown wood underneath.
Painting Piano Keys?If you have numbered and removed the faded black piano keys already, what is wrong with spray painting them? What would be the best spray paint to use?
Painting an Electric Guitar?I have an electric guitar that is in good shape but the paint is worn in several areas. Does anyone know what type of paint to use or have any tips for painting an electric guitar?
Repairing A Music Box?I've taken it apart and put it back together to find out what the issue was and it seems like it's missing something? When I first got it, the thing was wobbly. It's supposed to play music when I spin the lid but the horses and top just comes off. I believe there's a piece missing and that's why it's wobbly. I found a video on YouTube and it's supposed to be a wind up. The top is supposed to allow it to be winded up.
