Parts & Service
Piano Parts and Service
Paul Hewitt Music has been helping musicians in the Monroe area with their piano needs, parts and new equipment since 1946. The bench is still here, and so are the parts.
Expert Piano Services Tailored for You
That line is on our own site because it is a plain fact about this building, not a slogan. There is still a service bench at 1504 Lamy Lane, still a shelf of parts, and still someone behind the counter who has looked inside more Hammonds and pianos than most people will see in a lifetime. If something in your instrument sticks, buzzes, goes quiet or just does not feel right anymore, bring it here, or bring us the story of it, and we will tell you honestly what can be done.
What a Hammond looks like from the inside
The photograph beside this is the actual chassis of a Hammond that has come through this shop, opened up with its wiring loom and its Hammond service plate still attached. A tone wheel organ like this was built to be serviced, not replaced, and a shop that still has the bench and the parts to do that work honestly is rare now. The same goes for the pianos families already own. An older upright or console that has sat through a few Louisiana summers is not usually a lost cause. It is often a case for regulation, for restringing, or for a tuning that respects what humidity does to a soundboard down here, not a reason to haul it to the curb.
Paul Hewitt Music, Family owned and operated in Monroe since 1946. Call (318) 372-1449.
What wears out
Drawbars, manuals, and the parts that keep a Hammond honest
Hammond drawbars and manuals, close
Every drawbar on a Hammond is a physical switch assembly, and every manual is a run of contacts under the keys that gets pressed thousands of times over decades. Both are exactly the kind of thing that wears, sticks, or goes quiet on one note while the rest of the organ still sounds fine. It is a mechanical instrument built the way things were built to last and to be opened up, and that is precisely why it can still be worked on honestly today instead of written off. Whether a drawbar feels gritty under your hand or a key has gone silent, that is a bench problem, not a reason to replace the organ. Bring it in, or call and describe exactly what it is doing, and we will tell you what we can find.
New equipment, same floor
New instruments arrive on the same floor as the repair bench
Yamaha P-22 studio upright, walnut
Parts and new equipment since 1946 means both halves of that sentence still happen in the same building. New Yamaha instruments like this walnut P-22 studio upright sit on the same showroom floor as the pianos and Hammonds that come in for work, and the two sides inform each other. Regulating and tuning an instrument well is not a one-time event; a piano moves as its felt, wood and strings respond to heat and humidity, and Louisiana gives every instrument in this building plenty of both to respond to over a year. That is general truth about how pianos age here, not a schedule we are promising you. Whether you are looking at something new or bringing in something old, the honest first step is the same conversation: call 318-372-1449 and tell us what you have or what you are looking for.
Bring us the problem
Bring us the piano, bring us the story, or just bring us your questions. Call 318-372-1449 and we will tell you honestly what your instrument needs.