(But mostly, the students and the community.)
Your time.
Given back.
That is the mission.
Let's be completely honest: nobody goes into music because they love spending their Friday nights changing drum heads, hunting down mysterious rattles coming from their timpani, or trying to fix a stuck chime pedal right before a performance.
You became a musician, music director, or an educator to create and inspire others. But somewhere along the line, you also became a full-time, unpaid instrument repair mechanic.
At Bono Percussion, we think it's time you got your time and your focus back.
Bono Percussion was not born in a corporate boardroom. It started in a Texas band hall.
Our founder was a percussion director who kept looking at drums that needed to be tuned, instruments with broken parts, and timpani that needed new heads. He wanted his students to have the absolute best, but there were only two choices: let the gear fall into disrepair, or sacrifice hours outside of school trying to fix it.
After leaving the classroom, he realized this was not just a school problem. Whether it was a band director losing their prep periods, a worship leader dealing with a dead-sounding drum set, or a local gigging musician playing on a broken djembe head, everyone was feeling the exact same frustration.
What started as a one-person mission to help local directors reclaim their time has grown into a multi-state network of professional repair specialists dedicated to anyone who hits, shakes, or scrapes a percussion instrument.
Every interaction should leave you feeling heard, respected, and taken care of. We respond fast, communicate clearly, and never leave you guessing.
We do not cut corners. Every instrument gets the attention it deserves, and we test everything before it leaves our hands.
We sponsor events, donate time and equipment, and show up for the programs and musicians who need it most. The music community supports us, and we support it back.
Every interaction should leave you feeling heard, respected, and taken care of. We respond fast, communicate clearly, and never leave you guessing.
We do not cut corners. Every instrument gets the attention it deserves, and we test everything before it leaves our hands.
We sponsor events, donate time and equipment, and show up for the programs and musicians who need it most. The music community supports us, and we support it back.
We know that different players have different needs. We don't do cookie-cutter fixes; we build solutions tailored to you.
The Sanity Saver
Your students deserve instruments that actually work, and you deserve to go home to your family at a reasonable hour. When we take over your repairs, you get your prep periods and your weekends back. No more makeshift engineering, just flawlessly functioning gear for your students.
The Logic, Data & District Win
We know you have to justify every cent to your superintendent. We provide full-campus inventory tracking and wrap your maintenance, repairs, and supply budgets into a single line-item PO to make things easy for your administration. We also handle general music percussion repair, including Orff instruments, so your elementary programs are just as supported as your high school ensembles.
Sunday morning waits for no one. Rattling timpani or a poorly tuned drum kit distracts from the worship experience. We provide rapid, professional maintenance for church percussion sections, ensuring your gear is stage-ready, reliable, and sounding its best every single week.
Your instruments are an extension of your voice, and you've invested heavily in them. We bring the same elite, campus-level care to private studios and gigging percussionists. From deep cleaning and tuning to major structural overhauls, we treat your personal gear with the respect it deserves.
The Sanity Saver
Your students deserve instruments that actually work, and you deserve to go home to your family at a reasonable hour. When we take over your repairs, you get your prep periods and your weekends back. No more makeshift engineering, just flawlessly functioning gear for your students.
The Logic, Data & District Win
We know you have to justify every cent to your superintendent. We provide full-campus inventory tracking and wrap your maintenance, repairs, and supply budgets into a single line-item PO to make things easy for your administration. We also handle general music percussion repair, including Orff instruments, so your elementary programs are just as supported as your high school ensembles.
Sunday morning waits for no one. Rattling timpani or a poorly tuned drum kit distracts from the worship experience. We provide rapid, professional maintenance for church percussion sections, ensuring your gear is stage-ready, reliable, and sounding its best every single week.
Your instruments are an extension of your voice, and you've invested heavily in them. We bring the same elite, campus-level care to private studios and gigging percussionists. From deep cleaning and tuning to major structural overhauls, we treat your personal gear with the respect it deserves.
Serving schools, houses of worship, and independent artists across Texas, North Carolina, and Indiana.
A former Texas percussion director launches Bono Percussion to help fellow teachers change timpani heads and quickly realizes how deep the need for expert repair actually goes.
We listen to what our directors need and officially expand our services to offer total percussion repair, tackling everything from timpani and hand drums to broken keyboard frames.
Bono goes interstate! We open our second official location in North Carolina, bringing our signature sanity-saving repairs to East Coast music educators.
We take the podium to give back to the community, presenting our first major repair clinics at the NCMEA convention and various regional educator meetings.
We scale up our Texas operations and launch our groundbreaking Virtual Repair Program, making expert parts and video chat guidance accessible to directors anywhere in the country.
Our physical footprint keeps growing as we officially launch full on-site repair services to serve the thriving music programs in Austin, San Antonio, and Indianapolis.
A former Texas percussion director launches Bono Percussion to help fellow teachers change timpani heads and quickly realizes how deep the need for expert repair actually goes.
We listen to what our directors need and officially expand our services to offer total percussion repair, tackling everything from timpani and hand drums to broken keyboard frames.
Bono goes interstate! We open our second official location in North Carolina, bringing our signature sanity-saving repairs to East Coast music educators.
We take the podium to give back to the community, presenting our first major repair clinics at the NCMEA convention and various regional educator meetings.
We scale up our Texas operations and launch our groundbreaking Virtual Repair Program, making expert parts and video chat guidance accessible to directors anywhere in the country.
Our physical footprint keeps growing as we officially launch full on-site repair services to serve the thriving music programs in Austin, San Antonio, and Indianapolis.
We don't believe a business should just take money out of a community; we believe it's our responsibility to pour it back in. We are deeply committed to furthering percussion education and supporting organizations that do not have corporate budgets.
We have proudly sponsored the East Texas Percussion Directors Symposium since 2023, and we regularly sponsor and present educational clinics at TMEA and the NCMEA.
We donate equipment and professional repair hours to organizations making a real community impact, like El Sistema North Carolina, ensuring diverse youth get high-quality music training.
Not in our on-site locations? We assess your gear virtually, mail you the exact parts you need, and walk you through the fix via live video chat. Learn about Virtual Repair.
We have proudly sponsored the East Texas Percussion Directors Symposium since 2023, and we regularly sponsor and present educational clinics at TMEA and the NCMEA.
We donate equipment and professional repair hours to organizations making a real community impact, like El Sistema North Carolina, ensuring diverse youth get high-quality music training.
Not in our on-site locations? We assess your gear virtually, mail you the exact parts you need, and walk you through the fix via live video chat. Learn about Virtual Repair.
Dr. Brian Zator
East Texas University
In addition to the high-quality timpani head changes, Bono Percussion has also provided tutorial sessions to my students. They've taught them how to change and clear heads, and through their professionalism, empowered them to create their own brand and direction in the music world.
We are here for the long haul, not just a quick sale. Every project comes with:
If a piece of equipment we fixed does not work exactly as intended within 30 days, we will come right back and fix it for free. No questions asked.
Even after the job is done, you can text or call us with any questions about your gear. We have always got your back.
You just focus on making great music.
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