StringCleaningTM

Always sound your best

 

StringCleaningTM

Clear your voice - Clean your strings

 

CODA

Embedded dirt and grime kill good sound by distorting how strings speak and making them more difficult to control. Mechanically sound, old, discarded, quality strings can be cleaned and given new life for a fraction of their new replacement cost. Everyone has at least one set of expensive played out old strings laying around. Resurrect these discards and save money by sending  them to us for deep cleaning. StringCleaningTm will resurrect your old strings at no risk to you. Keep them as a backup or use them as replacements. Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Read below for details and see why trying cleaning before buying new strings makes good sense. Or drop to the order section to start your personal no risk string resurrection.

Why Clean your Strings

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What to expect

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Sound Your Best

Dirt, debris and corrosion slowly kill most strings by degrading their voice and making them harder to manage. Deep Cleaning restores their sound and their manners.

Extend String Life

Cleaning mechanically sound strings can restore them to good playing condition and extend their useful life by 50% or more.

Save on Expensive Replacements

High quality new strings are expensive and sometimes you don't get what you expect. Extending your current strings' life through deep cleaning means that you replace your strings less frequently, save money and play longer on strings you know, like and trust.

Clean and be Green

New strings are made with exotic mined metals which require chemical processing and significant amounts of energy to produce. Each set of new strings creates a long lasting waste stream. Cleaning strings is green since our process produces only small amounts biodegradable waste and consumes a tiny amount of energy. Cleaning old strings before investing in a new set is a smart choice that saves money and helps the environment.

No Risk Guarantee

Mechanically sound old strings can be cleaned and given new life for a fraction of the cost of new. Everyone has a least one set of old strings laying around. Turn these into a ready to play back-up or the next full replacement for your existing strings when its time for a change out.  Send a set of played out strings to us and we will rejuvenate them. There is no risk to you except a set of old discarded strings. Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed or we refund your money. If you send a set back to us because you are not pleased with the result we will put them in the hands of a student who needs them.       CODA

 

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Simple: Only One Price

Although we aren't far from Cambridge, you are not dealing with a group of Harvard MBA's at StringCleaning, so the pricing structure isn't fancy. On average in our experience, all types of strings take about the same labor, materials and overhead to process. So, the price is the same no matter what you send in for cleaning (the bookkeeper loves this). To keep it simple and avoid the use of nasty and rude collection agencies we only accept PayPal. Click below to start an order and clear your voice; check out the warranty; you only risk making yourself or some poor student happy.

StringCleaning
Clean 1 set (4 strings)
$50 +tax
Shipping Free

What Comes Next?

After your order is received you will receive a confirmation email with the order particulars. We will immediately send off a kit of prepaid packing materials and shipping instructions to you via USPS.  When the package arrives just pack up the strings per the instructions and drop them in the mail. Its that simple. Cleaned strings will be returned to you quickly via USPS along with a fresh set of post paid packaging for the next time you need us.     CODA 

What to expect:

When the strings are received here they are inspected and classified to assign them a predefined cleaning cycle based on the condition of the worst looking string in the set. At this point, strings are also marked with a coded invisible ink mark on the silks for identification, assigned a unique lot number and placed as a set in a private carrier for processing. They are never mixed with other strings. Inspected and classified  strings are then processed. Pre cleaning and cycle times are adjusted to match the classification given the strings when they were received and inspected. All materials and processes used are bio friendly and have a minimal carbon footprint. Our proprietary process requires no chemicals at all to resurrect your strings and return them to a healthy clean condition and we like it that way. Our principal process only uses distilled water and a custom designed ultrasonic cleaning cycle tuned up specifically for the type of string set we are processing and its condition.  Using no chemicals means nothing from the process is left behind, in or on the string which leaves plenty of room for angel's voices.

When you get them back, you should expect your newly cleaned strings to sound close to what you heard a week or so after mounting them as new (some like the sound better) and another 50% or so (some get more) of string life before sonic darkness descends and their voice is extinguished yet again. Some people report that the strings sound brighter than they remember when initially mounted. This makes sense since grime mutes high frequencies the most, and when the grime is removed the original highs are restored. Your last tonal memory of the strings will be of their grime laden, dull, selves on the path to sonic death. A few days of playing usually brings the player and the strings happily into tune with one another again. You may also notice some fluffing of the silks. This can be a byproduct of cleaning or a little gift left behind by your wolf tone eliminator which the cleaning process exposes. In any case, it does not affect the playability of the string. Most fuzz can be fixed with a little spit on the  finger  tip and a gentle twist in the right direction to lay the silk down again. We leave the spitting and twisting to you. CODA 

We aim to help strings sing again and leave you happy:
Our Warranty and Guarantees
 (We are reasonable people and trust that you are too)

The seller warrants 100% buyer satisfaction with the sound of the cleaned strings for a period of sixty days. The seller does not and can not warrant the mechanical condition of the strings as damage may be caused during uninstalling and installing the strings by the buyer. The buyer undertakes mounting and demounting strings at their own risk. The seller and buyer agree that any strings sent to the seller for cleaning have no value. The seller's total liability shall be limited in all cases to the invoiced value of the cleaning service which shall be refunded in full only upon return of the mechanically intact and unbroken originally serviced strings to the seller by the buyer. Any serviceable returned strings will be donated to students. No other warranty is expressed or implied. coda