John Jordan is currently accepting repair work on violin
family instruments and bows only. Everything from minor adjustments
to major restorations and repairs.
It is no longer practical for John to
continue
offering repairs on guitars and similar fretted instruments and still
concentrate
on instrument making. The decision to continue to offer violin repair
was made based of the
lack
of nearby shops that offer such a full range of violin repair services,
and John's decades of service to this community. The demand for the
instruments John builds have
made
it impractical to also run a busy repair shop for "anything with
strings". There are other shops
in the area offering guitar repair at a high skill level.
One of John's former employees Mark Miller currently runs MSM Music
Services in Orinda, CA offering fine quality guitar repair and warranty
service for Martin and other brands . Mark Miller can be reached on his
cell
phone at (415) 336-3183.
When John was running a multi employee shop, John and his employees
repaired
thousands of instruments every year. We have done everything from minor
adjustments on new instruments to an extensive restoration on a 1591
Zanetto
cello. We have experience with all the familiar stringed instruments as
well as unusual ethnic instruments. We have been known to say; "If you
bring us the tuning peg, we can rebuild the instrument that it fits".
While
no one has ever taken us up on that offer, we have done some highly
complex
restorations that come rather close to that description.