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New, Used and Vintage Musical Instruments

21 E. 3rd St.
NY, NY 10003

212 991 4930
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East Village Music Store Repairs!

East Village Music Store offers a wide variety of repair and maintenance services for most types of pro gear including guitar and bass repair, violin viola, cello and contra-bass repair, tube and solid state instrument amplifier repair, pedal and rack effect processor repair, analog and digital synthesizer repair, organ, electric, electronic and digital piano repair, digital workstation repair, digital and analog recording equipment repair as well as sound reinforcement speaker, transducer and power amplifier repair!

Below is a listing of services that we offer:

Guitar and Bass Repairs!

East Village Music Store's two luthiers have a combined 70 years of experience! Why bring your precious instrument anywhere else? No one can offer the level of experience, expertise and quality of work that we do!

Set-ups! We do a complete setup including neck adjustment, intonation and tuning, cleaning and moisturizing of the fretboard, polishing of the frets, checking of all electronics, tightening of all screws and parts and more! Bring your axe back to life! We make it play and feel as close to new as possible! Our guitar technician has been doing setups and repairs for some of the biggest names in the music industry for over 30 years!

Electronic rewiring! Including pickup installation, coil-taps, phase switches, arch-top harness rewiring, output jack replacement and much more! If you can imagine it, we can probably do it! Our electronic guitar technicians have been servicing the New York City music scene for over 40 years and have worked on gear for virtually all of the guitarists that have lived here in that time span, as well as many artists that were just travelling thru!

Restoration! Repair of cracks, broken necks and headstocks, refretting, rebinding. and more! A wide range of price levels are available, from functional to completely refinished! Our two repair techs that handle structural problems have a combined experience of over 70 years! From functional repairs to premium repairs (i.e. you can barely tell it was ever broken), we have it covered! Whatever your instrument needs to bring it back to life, we can do it!

We stock a HUGE variety of replacement parts in order to bring your instrument back to its' original state or upgrade your instrument to the highest level of playability! A listing of most (but not all!) of our replacement parts for fretted instruments is available at Guitar Parts!

Violin, Viola, Cello, Contrabass and other Fretted and Unfretted Instrument Repair!

Lola Johnson, our orchestral string repair luthier has worked with some of the biggest stores on the East Coast including Guitar Center, Sam Ash and Alto Music.

After tiring of the chain store corporate mentality, she struck out on her own and now does guitar and bass repair at Richie's Guitar Shop and orchestral string repair for us!

Some (but not all) of the services she provides are:

Violin, Viola, Cello and Contrabass restoration, sound post resetting, fingerboard repair, new bridges, repair / reglue tops that are seperating, replace / unfreeze / repair tuning pegs and more! We also repair banjos, ukuleles, mandolins and all other stringed instruments!

Brass and Woodwind Repair

Karlo Stefanov, our Brass and Woodwind Technician/Repair Person studied music and mechanical engineering in Prague, Czech Republic.

In 1984, he immigrated to the United States (our gain, Europe's loss) and moved to LA and worked for "Stein on Vine" for eight years doing brass and woodwind repairs for some of the LA studio scene's hottest players including Stan Getz, Wayne Shorter, Michael Brecker amonst others!

In 1993, he moved to New York City (LA's loss, NY's gain) and went to work for Dr. Rick of Carmine Street for six years until Dr. Rick closed up shop. Then he moved on to work with Sam Ash for four years before going freelance for private collectors and investors, maintaining some of the most beautiful and expensive horns on the Eastern seaboard.

After a long and well deserved rest and visit to his homeland in Europe, he returned to New York and went to work for John Baltimore's International Woodwind and Brass.

And now he is here at East Village Music Store (our gain, everybody else's loss)!

Also, he is currently in the process of developing his own line of saxophones which will be marked under the "Kasteus Saxophone" Brand!

Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute and other woodwind key repads, regulation, cleaning, oiling and more! Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba, Fluegelhorn, English and French Horn, Euphonium restoration, stuck mouthpiece removal, dent removal, valve refurbishing and more!

Vintage Analog Synths, Electric Pianos and Electronic Keyboard Repairs!

Our Electrical/Electronic technician is a master at repairing vintage analog synthesizers (he was repairing them when the were the newest thing!), Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer Electric Pianos, Hammonds, Leslies, Farfisas and Vox Organs, as well as the most modern digital synths, workstations, samplers, drum machines, computer interfaces and other contemporary electronic marvels! With over 30 years of experience, no one can surpass his knowledge or expertise!

We have many replacement parts for keyboards! These can be found at Keyboard Parts!

Electric Guitar and Instrument Amplifiers!

Re-tubing, biasing, revoicing, replacement speakers, modifications, re-capping, replacement reverb pans and more! We do everything neccessary to get your amp sounding its screaming best! We carry new old stock American tubes in a variety of brands as well as Electro-Harmonix, Sovtek, Svetlana, Sino and a host of other new tubes as well as most caps, resistors and transformers!

We have many replacement parts for Guitar and Instrument Amplifiers! These can be found at Amp Parts!

Pedal Effects, Outboard Gear and Sound Reinforcement!

We can repair virtually any pedal effect, commercial speaker cabinet, power amplifier or outboard gear out there! We stock a large array of replacement raw frame speakers, horns and drivers as well as replacement diaphrams from Eminence, B&C, RCF and others as well as crossover networks, resistors, capacitors, transformers and more! Our technicians can repair and modify virtually any pedal effects, outboard gear and power amplifiers on the market!

We have many replacement parts for Pedal Effects and Pro Sound Gear!
These can be found at Pedal Effects Parts! and Pro Sound Parts!

All used gear that is repaired by us carries a 30 day warranty on the repair!
This does not cover if something else goes wrong with the unit!
We will make every effort to advise customers of future potential problems and whether or not an item is worth repairing!

We offer quantity/wholesale discounts on parts for repair houses and serious hobbyists!
Please click email with inquires!
Give a call today at (212) 991-4930 to see how we can help you keep your equipment healthy and alive!
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East Village Logo

SUPER STORE PRICES, SMALL STORE SERVICE!
Buy * Sell * Trade * Rent * Repair
New, Used and Vintage Musical Instruments

21 E. 3rd St.
NY, NY 10003

212 991 4930
email