At Family Music Center children and adults acquire the expertise of becoming a skilled musician or performer, while receiving a solid and comprehensive education in the fundamentals of their instrument. Music Lessons $20.00 per half hour & $35.00 per hour
Rental Plans
Used instruments valued $400 or less, and new drum and bell kits: $50 for 3 months. Used instruments valued $450 and over: 10% of
value, every 3 months. Extras: No extra charge for "normal wear and tear" repairs. (Theft, loss, or obvious abuse not covered.) 20% off if purchased within 30 days. 2 free lessons included. Usually while-U-wait repair service. "No Complaints" Repair Service
We have 30 years' experience repairing all band and orchestra instruments. Family Music Center offer's a 6-month warranty on repads and overhauls, and a one month warranty on minor repairs. We have many satisfied repeat customers: teachers, parents, and performers. When a repair comes back, which is seldom, we make the adjustments at no charge, even if they might have been necessitated by weather or minor abuse. If a repair ever comes back a third time, I would offer free pickup and delivery for any Des Moines customer.
1-3 day repair service For most repairs, most of the year! While-you-wait service on most repairs of instruments rented from us! Virtually never does one of our rental
customers have to wait more than a day. And even during busy season, we can often turn out woodwind repads in a week. (String repairs requiring consecutive gluing operations take longer.) Price quotes given before work begins. If we find more to repair than we saw at the time of the quote, we will stick to the quote, unless it is significant enough to call you to authorize the additional repair, before we proceed. Prices:
Clarinet, flute repads, $250; Overhauls, $300. Alto Sax, Oboe repads, $350. Tenor Sax repads, $400. Repads: completely disassemble and clean; all new pads, and replacement of springs, corks, screws, and felts as needed. Overhauls; same as repads except metal is polished. On brass horns, metal is polished and re-lacquered. Economy overhaul is not as perfect in appearance, and is done more quickly. Prices based on only minor dent removal; major dents extra. Single cork joints for clarinet, $12 ; sax, $15 . Typical cost of replacing one pad: $10 clarinet, $12 sax. Chemical cleaning and minor valve/slide work for trumpets and trombones: $30. String repair prices: violins and violas: bow rehairs $30. New bridge: $15. Re-glue neck: $20. Repair, pin, and re-glue broken neck: $50. Cracks in the top: $50 + $10 for each crack. Peg replacement: $15 per peg. Nuts, Saddles, End pins: $10. String replacement: $2/string labor + cost of string (includes re-doping pegs, and resetting fine tuners.)
