How about music instruments?

[abrogard]

There's a big field of DIY in the music instruments area you know?
Any thoughts on expanding into it?
There is a need, I believe - there's nowhere else to go really.
Like right now I'm having a go at my reed organ

 

[Doghouse Riley]

I wouldn't know where to start!


I wouldn't attempt to do anything with this.

Fortunately, Yamahas are very reliable, I've had this 9 years and it's been no trouble. Neither was the one I had before for 20 years.

All this ever needs is a bit of a clean, the pads brushed with special powdered paper and a bit of oil on the linkages.
I can manage that.

It usually lives here behind the TV in my den, so my wife can't clout it with her vacuum cleaner.

It's a Yamaha YTS62

 

[Shaggy]

There's a big field of DIY in the music instruments area you know?
Any thoughts on expanding into it?
There is a need, I believe - there's nowhere else to go really.
Like right now I'm having a go at my reed organ
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So are you asking to maybe have a music instrument section on here? Is that an organ in the picture that you fixed up?

 

[zimbodel]

There's a big field of DIY in the music instruments area you know?
Any thoughts on expanding into it?
There is a need, I believe - there's nowhere else to go really.
Like right now I'm having a go at my reed organ
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Reed Organs are lovely monsters. Each one has its own character. Just like Bandoneons. One of the few instruments that loses a lot when you sample them. They truly remain unique acoustic instruments. I would love a good one, but dont currently have the space for one.

 

[zimbodel]

So are you asking to maybe have a music instrument section on here? Is that an organ in the picture that you fixed up?

As a player of many instruments, I think it would be helpful, as e.g. Luthier sites are self serving and generally eletist and unfriendly and you get little daylight out of them.
Maybe a Musical Instrument Repair section. The general musical repair of all instruments is called "Musical instrument repair" then subsections the go as e.g. Luthier -- for stringed instruments which further divides into Bowed and Plucked sections etc.

Further:
Wind instruments: Wind Instrument Repair.
Brass: Brass Instrument Repair.
Woodwind: Woodwind Instrument Repair.
Reed instruments: Reed Instrument Repair.
Reed organs: Organ Tuner or Reed Organ Repair.
Reed Instruments (portable) subsections Accordions Bandoneons: Accordion Repair, Bandoneon Repair etc.

Other categories:

• Stringed: Luthier or Stringed Instrument Repair
• Fretted: Fretted String Instrument Repair
• Guitar, mandolin etc: Luthier (Plucked)
• Violin: Luthier (Bowed)
• Banjo: Luthier (Resonator)
• Bow: Bow Rehair/Repair
• Piano: Piano Repair
• Organ: Organ Repair
• Keyboard: Keyboard Instrument Repair
• Percussion: Percussion Instrument Repair
• Band: Band Instrument Repair
  
  Furthermore above is acoustic instruments. Similar must be done for Electric/Electronic and Midi instruments.

Or it can be the flat Unix way without the nesting, just add directories what is needed (best way with way less admin overhead due to lack of nesting.)


On another note: It is refreshing to see a site administrator actually interested in the content in a fundamental way as you displayed here. I really appreciate it and gives me confidence in the site.

This site will have a long life. For sure.

 

[abrogard]

So are you asking to maybe have a music instrument section on here? Is that an organ in the picture that you fixed up?

Yes. That's right. On both counts. That is an organ. It is a reed organ of 150 years old. Expertise on how fix them grows harder and harder to find an people who have them grow keener and keener to find some. It's not 'fixed up' yet though, I need help myself.

I also have an old piano. I have learned to tune it and make some adjustments to the action. That sort of thing is also in much demand particularly where tuners are scarce and/or expensive or just where people have a DIY turn of mind.

I have a few reed instruments, too and I know there is much DIY can be attached to them: clainets, saxophones, flutes etc. They all require repadding and sometimes new springs and adjustments and sourcing of materials.

Even sturdy brass raises questions: resoldering, beating out dents, sourcing valve springs, caps etc.

Guitars are an obvious one: machine heads, stringing, warped necks, damaged bodies.

Even electronic instruments. I've had a couple of electronic organs and both suffered in the end from an inability to source expertise. They died. A great shame. It's always a bit of a shame to see an instrument die.

Yes, musicians are not just players, there's a surprising amount of hands on DIY every musician knows. It is a hands-on business, not just sound.

So i think it would have the 'customers' and would be a valuable resource and I'd expect it to be of great interest in its own right.