My Business

The majority of my work life has been within the field of electronics.  I started in my pre-teens building radios and mending broken ones and record playing equipment.  In the 50s I began getting very interested in tape recording and built the electronics around a Collaro tape deck.  At one time I also helped in the construction of a portable tape recorder, a friend Mike Foster G8AMG did the electronics and I did the mechanics.  The unit worked well, I wonder what became of it Mike?.  Then I started work with Radio Rentals as an aerial rigger, progressing to radio and television servicing, I stayed there for 6 years during which I studied for and passed the necessary exams to become a radio amateur (ham).

Subsequently I left the retail trade to go into industrial electronics.  My job was technical assistant to the managing director.  The company was breaking the barriers of technology researching static inverters and frequency changers.  I learned a great deal during the 5 years I worked for this company.  During my time there I was, for three years, the works manager and then the chief inspector approved by all three armed forces and the MOD.

Eventually I decided that I wanted to start my own business servicing and renting televisions.  This I did in December 1968 and I've worked for myself ever since, except for a five year period in the early 80s at the time of a serious recession.  I started as the chief test engineer for a company manufacturing highly complex photographic equipment and ballistics instrumentation.

As the recession faded I eventually returned to working for myself but this time I decided to concentrate on the non-retail industry.  I built up a business as a freelance journalist with some servicing on the side.  As I neared state retirement age I spent more and more time working on music related instruments, mainly guitar amps and keyboards.  Today I specialize in these two latter types of equipment.

I have become a specialist in the repair and overhaul of high value keyboards such as Kawai and Yamaha.  I cover a large area of Kent, Surrey and Sussex, together with the eastern fringes of Hampshire and Berkshire.  Additionally I carry out the repairs for a music shop in East Grinstead, Bullfrog music. 

Over the past three years I have been spent several sessions of a few days at a time assisting Fender Music clear their backlog of amplifier repairs.  I have just completed 8 days with them while their fulltime engineer was away on jury duty. 

If you have problems with keyboards, or guitar amplifiers, I would be pleased to give you a quote to put matters right.  You can contact me at here.