Nationwide collection and delivery
Book collection of your instrument using our insured courier service.
- More convenient and probably cheaper than driving to your local music shop.
- Fast turnaround – most work can be completed and returned in 48 hours.
Find out more about sending your instrument to us – follow the link below:
https://www.hansonmusic.co.uk/4707/products/dpd-instrument-collection–dpd-local-pickup-shop.aspx
Brass instrument servicing and repair price guide.
‘SERVICING’
Servicing includes strip down of your instrument to each component part, deep clean and descale, rebuild and lubricate.’
Cornet/Trumpet/Flugel horn | Price excluding VAT | ||
Service plus new phosphor bronze valve springs; New soft stops; Hand finishing of valves with diamond paste | from | £80 | |
Tenor horn | |||
Service plus new phosphor bronze valve springs; New soft stops; Hand finishing of valves with diamond paste | from | £120 | |
3 valve Euphonium or Baritone horn | |||
Service plus new phosphor bronze valve springs; New soft stops; Hand finishing of valves with diamond paste | from | £120 | |
4 valve Euphonium or Baritone horn | |||
Service plus new phosphor bronze valve springs; New soft stops; Hand finishing of valves with diamond paste | from | £150 | |
3 valve Tuba | |||
Service plus new phosphor bronze valve springs; New soft stops; Hand finishing of valves with diamond paste | from | £200 | |
4 valve Tuba | |||
Service plus new phosphor bronze valve springs; New soft stops; Hand finishing of valves with diamond paste | from | £240 | |
3 valve French horn | |||
Service plus new neoprene stops and fine alignment; Hand finishing of valves with diamond paste | from | £80 | |
4 valve French horn | |||
Service plus new neoprene stops and fine alignment; Hand finishing of valves with diamond paste | from | £190 | |
Trombone | |||
Service | from | £90 | |
Trombones with triggers | |||
Single rotor: Service plus new neoprene stops and fine alignment; Hand finishing of valves with diamond paste | from | £130 | |
Double rotor: Service plus new neoprene stops and fine alignment; Hand finishing of valves with diamond paste | from | £160 | |
IMPORTANT NOTE. Servicing is not repairing. A service does not include repairs such as severely stuck slide removal, damaged valves, broken solder joints, dent work. After servicing you can expect your instrument to feel and play better than before, not to mention that it’s certainly more hygienic – you would be amazed at what comes out of most instruments when they are deep cleaned inside the bore! |
‘RESTORATION’Restoration includes Magnohelic testing of valves and slides before strip down of your instrument to each component part, dent removal dents, renewing solder joints as required and polishing to a mirror finish.
Your instrument is then finished in your choice of Sheffield silverplate, 24 karat gold or one of our special ‘Raw brass’ finishes. ‘Raw Brass’ finishes can be made extra special by pre-ageing in our ‘time machine’ and protected by microcrystalline wax.
Cornet/Trumpet/Flugel horn | Price excluding VAT | ||
Complete restoration. Finished in ’25 year’ Sheffield silver plate or lacquer. | from | £425 | |
Complete restoration. Finished in ’25 year’ Sheffield silver plate with Gold plated trim to valves and waterkeys | from | £525 | |
Complete restoration. Finished in natural raw brass and ‘aged’ – very cool. | from | £475 | |
Tenor horn | |||
Complete restoration. Finished in ’25 year’ Sheffield silver plate or lacquer. | from | £595 | |
Complete restoration. Finished in ’25 year’ Sheffield silver plate with Gold plated trim to valves and waterkeys | from | £695 | |
3 valve Euphonium or Baritone horn | |||
Complete restoration. Finished in ’25 year’ Sheffield silver plate or lacquer. | from | £975 | |
Complete restoration. Finished in ’25 year’ Sheffield silver plate with Gold plated trim to valves and waterkeys | from | £1075 | |
4 valve Euphonium or Baritone horn | |||
Complete restoration. Finished in ’25 year’ Sheffield silver plate or lacquer. | from | £1245 | |
Complete restoration. Finished in ’25 year’ Sheffield silver plate with Gold plated trim to valves and waterkeys | from | £1345 | |
3 valve Tuba | |||
Complete restoration. Finished in ’25 year’ Sheffield silver plate or lacquer. | from | £2300 | |
Complete restoration. Finished in ’25 year’ Sheffield silver plate with Gold plated trim to valves and waterkeys | from | £2400 | |
4 valve Tuba | |||
Complete restoration. Finished in ’25 year’ Sheffield silver plate or lacquer. | from | £3250 | |
Complete restoration. Finished in ’25 year’ Sheffield silver plate with Gold plated trim to valves and waterkeys | from | £3350 | |
Single French horn | |||
Complete restoration. Finished in ’25 year’ Sheffield silver plate or or lacquer | from | £1800 | |
Complete restoration. Finished in ’25 year’ Sheffield silver plate with Gold plated trim to valves and waterkeys | from | £1900 | |
Complete restoration. Finished in natural raw brass for maximum resonance. | from | £1395 | |
4 valve French horn | |||
Complete restoration. Finished in ’25 year’ Sheffield silver plate or or lacquer | from | £2200 | |
Complete restoration. Finished in ’25 year’ Sheffield silver plate with Gold plated trim to valves and waterkeys | from | £2300 | |
Complete restoration. Finished in natural raw brass for maximum resonance. | from | £1695 | |
Trombone | |||
Complete restoration. Finished in ’25 year’ Sheffield silver plate or or lacquer | from | £795 | |
Complete restoration. Finished in natural raw brass and ‘aged’ – very cool. | from | £895 | |
Trombones with triggers | |||
Complete restoration. Finished in ’25 year’ Sheffield silver plate or or lacquer | from | £895 | |
Complete restoration. Finished in ’25 year’ Sheffield silver plate with Gold plated trim to valves and waterkeys | from | £995 | |
Complete restoration. Finished in natural raw brass and ‘aged’ – very cool. | from | £760 | |
IMPORTANT NOTE. Every restoration is different. All prices above are ‘from’, that is to say that the prices quoted are a guide price only for instruments needing a ‘usual’ amount of workshop time to effect an excellent restoration. An important part is the magnohelic testing. This is the first step of any restoration and reports to us the air tightness of your instrument. If even the slightest leak is present your instrument will not play as well as it should – this may present as an instrument feeling ‘stuffy’, poor intonation, difficult pitching of notes, a buzz on one or more notes… our Magnohelic pressure testing machine will detect any problem before the restoration is begun so we can identify the problem and correct it. Your instrument will play as good or better than new after it is restored by us.
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General repairs price guide
Including Valve repairs and alignment; Magnohelic testing; Broken joints; Stuck slides; Dent removal; Tuning correction; Making custom parts such as extra triggers; Laser scanning.
General | Price excluding VAT | ||
Solder joints (each) | from | £15 | |
Silver solder joints (each) | from | £30 | |
Replace water key spring | from | £12 | |
Replace trigger spring | from | £16 | |
Remove stuck slide (without unsoldering) | from | £12 | |
Remove severely stuck slide (requiring unsoldering and rebuild) | from | £30 | |
Valves | |||
Rectify intermittent sticky valve (per valve) | from | £30 | |
Straighten valve casing / remove dent from piston (per valve) | from | £45 | |
Precise valve port alignment and correction (per set of 3 valves) | from | £60 | |
Hand finish valve with Diamond lapping paste (per valve) | from | £15 | |
Rebuild rotary valve, diamond finish, align ports and set lever or restring (per valve) | from | £45 | |
Custom made valve block refit – 4 valve conversion – MAW valves – please ask for details | from | £600 | |
Trombone slides | |||
Basic dent work and alignment | from | £30 | |
Professional level slide alignment | from | £90 | |
Dents to outer slide | from | £20 | |
Renovation of slide legs – strip, re-nickel, rebuild slide and align | from | £240 | |
New bumpers and set safety catch | from | £30 | |
Triggers and other custom made parts | |||
Custom made slide trigger | from | £120 | |
Custom made main tuning slide trigger | from | £180 | |
Modify bell to enable bell tuning / interchangeable bell | from | £180 | |
Modify bell to screw off detachable/ interchangeable bell | from | £240 | |
Heavy weight or custom finish valve finger buttons (set of three pieces) | from | £90 | |
Heavy weight or custom finish valve top caps or bottom caps (set of three pieces) | from | £90 | |
Custom stays and braces between mouthpipe/bell (Monette style) | from | £120 | |
Shorten tuning slides (sharpen individual slides) inners and outers | from | £60 | |
Any bespoke work or custom parts can be made to your specification – call for details. All things are possible! | |||
Dent work | |||
‘Rough out’ creases from bell | from | £15 | |
Remove small dents from accessible parts | from | £15 | |
All other dent work needs to be assessed and priced individually | £POA | ||
Specialist services | |||
Analysis of tuning (cornet/trumpet/flugel/tenor horn/single french horn) | from | £60.00 | |
Analysis of tuning (low brass and double french horn) | from | £120.00 | |
Resizing or adjusting the bore to correct intonation | from | £90.00 | |
Magnohelic pressure test with analysis | from | £30.00 | |
Laser scanning of mouthpiece with data provided on USB stick. | from | £240.00 | |
Custom made mouthpiece from laser scan. | from | £280.00 |
We undertake work on all makes and models on instrument.
- General repairs and servicing.
- Renovation of historic instruments.
- Laser scanning and reverse engineering.
- Full CNC machining facilities
- More than 30 years experience.
Nationwide collection and delivery.
- Book collection of your instrument using our insured courier service.
- More convenient and probably cheaper than driving to your local music shop.
- Fast turnaround – most work can be completed and returned in 48 hours.
Find out more about sending your instrument to us – follow the link below:
https://www.hansonmusic.co.uk/4707/products/dpd-instrument-collection–dpd-local-pickup-shop.aspx