Restorations

A Restoration is when extensive work is done over many months or even years to bring a typically expensive or rare instrument back to structural stability and playability. A restoration can also mean in some cases of very old, delicate instruments to get an instrument back to what appears to be (but isn’t) a playable state for a museum etc. “Playable state” means the instrument is able to withstand string tension without imploding.

A Restoration project always requires days, weeks or months of thinking the entire problem through before work is started on the instrument. Each instrument is unique, as are all of its collective problems working against time and me. Such is a restoration. I don’t give completion dates for restorations. It is done after taking the time it takes.

The cost for a restoration is based on too many factors to list here, but imagine handing me a blank check and being happy doing so.