Used & new Musical Instruments for sale in Islamabad & Rawalpindi
Where can I buy used musical instruments in Islamabad?
Stock is inspected and sold under one of four grades: New, Like New, Good Used or For Parts / Repair, so a beginner's first guitar and a restoration project are not offered as the same thing. What counts on an instrument is structural rather than cosmetic. A dull finish and tired strings are nothing much; a twisted neck, split bellows or a cracked tabla skin are the whole instrument.
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Request this itemWhat to check before buying a used musical instruments
These are the checks that set the condition grade on anything we list — and the ones worth running yourself wherever you buy.
Sight down the guitar neck
Hold the guitar at eye level and look along the fretboard from the headstock. A slight forward bow is normal and adjusts out, but a twist that lifts one edge of the fretboard, or a truss rod nut that is already tight or spins without tensioning, is fingerboard work worth more than most used guitars.
Check the frets for grooves
Fret wear shows as flat spots and pits in the first five frets, where most chords are played. Light marks are fine, but deep grooves cause buzzing and dead notes, and a refret is skilled labour that outruns the value of an ordinary second-hand guitar.
Press every keyboard key
Work up the whole keyboard one note at a time, black keys included, softly and then firmly. Scattered dead notes usually mean dirty contact strips, which clean up; a block of adjacent notes failing together, or notes that sound at full volume however lightly you press, points at the main board instead.
Pump the harmonium bellows
Hold each key down while pumping steadily: every reed should speak cleanly and hold its pitch, so a wheeze, a silence, or a note that sags flat means a bent or corroded reed. Close the bellows afterwards and listen along the folds and corners for escaping air, which is a recovering job rather than a reed job.
Inspect the tabla skins
Look closely where the black syahi meets the goat skin, and at the braided rim. Hairline cracks, syahi lifting at its edge, or skin that has gone hard and shiny mean a re-skin, and the skins are the larger part of what a set is worth.
Work every control and jack
Through an amplifier or the instrument's own speakers, turn each knob slowly through its travel and flick the pickup or voice selector. Crackle that tracks the knob is a dirty potentiometer and cleans up, but a dead pickup position, or a jack that cuts out when the lead is moved, means wiring inside.
Brands we see most
These are the musical instruments brands that come up most often in the Islamabad and Rawalpindi second-hand market. We trade others too — this is what typically turns up, not a list of what is in stock today.