Musical instrument repair — guitars, violins, wind instruments and pianos
Musical instrument repair is for when guitar strings buzz, a violin top cracks, a saxophone leaks air or a piano goes out of tune. In an order, describe the instrument and the fault — repairers will send responses. Or use work photos to find a guitar tech, piano tuner or wind instrument repairer.
Musical instrument repairers
How much musical instrument repair costs
What affects the price
The instrument and its mechanism
Restringing and setting up a guitar is different work from overhauling the mechanism of a saxophone or a piano, with dozens of keys or hammers.
Frets and the neck
Dressing and polishing the frets is one job; replacing them completely or leveling the fingerboard is another, much longer one.
Cracks and finish
Gluing a crack in the top or regluing a guitar bridge also means drying time under clamps, and touching up the finish over the seam is often charged separately.
Parts and materials
A bone nut instead of a plastic one, new tuning pegs or a pickup, a set of saxophone pads — these are separate parts, and their price is added to the cost of the work.
A piano on site
Pianos are tuned at home, so the visit affects the price, and a piano not tuned for years is sometimes brought up to pitch gradually, over several visits.
Prices come from specialists' profiles on Nexperity and update automatically. You agree the final price with the specialist directly.
How to find a musical instrument repairer
Two ways — pick the one that suits you
Pick a specialist yourself
- 1Open specialists' profiles and their work
- 2Send a request that describes the task
- 3Once accepted — contact the specialist directly
Post an order
- 1Describe the task, payment and the timing you want
- 2Receive responses from specialists
- 3Pick the best specialist and agree directly
- Free for clients
- Orders can be posted anonymously
- Your contacts open only after acceptance
- No commission on the deal
How to choose a musical instrument repairer
- 1
A repairer for your instrument
A guitar tech, a piano tuner and a wind instrument repairer are different trades. Look for one whose services and portfolio include exactly your instrument.
- 2
Checking it at pickup
When you pick the instrument up, play it in the workshop: you can hear and see buzzing, tuning and how the keys move right away.
- 3
Strings and tuning
String height, the truss rod and intonation are set for a specific string gauge and tuning. Tell the repairer which strings you use and what tuning you play in, so the guitar is set up for them.
- 4
A valuable instrument
For a vintage guitar or an old violin, ask whether the repairer has restoration experience and will keep the original finish and parts. Look at similar work in the portfolio.
- 5
Time and storage
Check how many days the guitar or violin will stay in the workshop, and whether wooden instruments are kept there at stable humidity.
What to put in the order
Which instrument, make and model — for example, an acoustic guitar or an alto saxophone
What is wrong: buzzing strings, a crack, it won't stay in tune, a key sticks, a pickup doesn't work
For a guitar — the string gauge and the tuning you play in
When the instrument was last repaired or tuned
Whether you will bring the instrument to a workshop or need a visit, as with a piano
Whether it has to be ready for a concert, an exam or a recording
Questions about Nexperity
How Nexperity works — separately for clients and for specialists
For clients
Nothing. Searching for specialists, sending requests, posting orders and receiving responses are free.
No. You agree the price and the payment method with the specialist and pay them directly. Nexperity does not take payments and is not a party to your deal.
A request goes to one specialist — from their profile. An order is posted for everyone: specialists send you responses, and you choose which one to accept.
How the specialist will do the task, a price — fixed, a range, hourly or “on request” — and, optionally, an estimated timeline.
30 days from publication: all that time it is visible in the feed and specialists can send responses. The exact end date and time are shown on the order in your account. From that moment the order is closed and a response can no longer be accepted. You can cancel it earlier, and if no specialist turned up, post a new one.
Yes: you can hide your name and photo in an order. The anonymity lasts until acceptance — the specialist whose response you accept sees your name and photo. The task description is public: anyone visiting the site can read it.
Only after acceptance — when you accept their response or they accept your request. And only the contacts you chose to show.
After acceptance you see the contacts the specialist chose to show, and they see the ones you chose. You can also message on Nexperity when the chat is on: on an order you decide that, on a direct request the specialist does.
Once the work is done, mark the order or the collaboration completed in your account — then you can say whether you recommend the specialist. A review can only be left for a collaboration that happened through Nexperity: one per specialist, which you can change or delete at any time.
For specialists
Nothing for now: this is the free period, and no subscription is needed yet. Nexperity takes no commission on deals — you settle with the client directly.
Sign up, fill in your specialist profile and add your services — each with a category, a description and a price. Once the profile is complete, it appears in search and on the category pages.
Two ways: clients send you requests from your profile, which you can accept or decline; and you see public orders in your categories in your account and can respond to them.
You describe how you will do the task and give a price and, optionally, a timeline. The client compares responses and accepts one.
Contacts set to “Public” are visible to everyone on your profile. A client sees contacts set to “After connection” once you accept their request or they accept your response. “Hidden” ones are not revealed in new connections: a contact already revealed to a client stays visible to them.
Each service has a fixed price, a range, an hourly rate or “on request”. Prices show on your profile and in search results, and you agree the final price with the client.
Through search and the category pages of your services. The order depends on your clients' reviews — how many of them recommend you — and in search also on how well your services match the query.
A photo, a description, your region and way of working — online or in person — your contacts and a portfolio: photos of your work, each with a short caption if you like.
A client leaves a review after completed work, and only for a collaboration through Nexperity: they say whether they recommend you and may add a few words. Each client counts once, however many times you work together.
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