Alpha Entek & The Service Zone. Classic & Modern Musical Gear. Service, Customise

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Alpha Entek, Ron Lebar's long established business, provides services for musicians & the music industry. Operating The Service Zone in Coventry, Mercia. A member of the Hammond Hire Company (HHC) group, (known as 'The Zoo'). Dedicated to restoration, servicing & hire of classic musical instruments. Plus a long tradition of servicing the latest & best modern equipment.

This Site is an evolving project, providing information on musical instruments, equipment & technology etc. A fairly non-mathematical style will produce a useful resource for all.

Pages on Technology, Sine Waves, Useful Formluae, deciBel tables, Measuement, Trigonometry & Logarithm Tables provide a glimpse at the history of our calling. Synthesis will be covered in depth. We will demolish some myths and provide a clear insight into technology we all use.

Visit us @ HHC for service, restoration, more information or to view a growing pictorial record of our work & typical instruments. Further details on the 'Contact details' page, also available from Our Home page.

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Information & History: The Zoo, The Service Zone & The Hammond Hire Company.

Our business history spans over forty years. Ron Lebar, Proprietor, worked for VOX and Selmer. At a time when they, together with Watkins, Boosey & Hawkes, and later Marshall were the music industry in Britain. In 1968 He started independent servicing of instruments that are now classics, continuing without a break since.

At that time Hammonds, Lowreys, Rhodes, Wurlitzers, and later Minimoogs were the major keyboards in use professionally.

In 1979 an interest in automation was put to use and Andromeda was founded for development work within this discipline. Cameron was formed for the servicing side of the business. He became Sequential's official Service Centre at the start of the '80s and ensoniQ's in early 1986.

E-mu and Akai joining later that Year, after a successful North London Partnership was formed.

The Service Zone name and trade mark were adopted in 1995 when the decision was made to put aside previous partnership ventures and concentrate on a long term goal of providing the ultimate facility for Musicians and their Industry. This included the combining of Andromeda and Cameron. Thus The Service Zone was born.

Alpha Entek, was originally started at the start of 1986, put on hold to allow the partnership formation. This reformed and handles all aspects of the business in Mercia, including custom, & in house design. Watch this space.

Shortly after The Service Zone came into being a co-operation with the Hammond Hire Company started. This rapidly gathered momentum, two businesses with a long Music Industry history and common interests working together. Classics, including Hammond organ restoration, Rhodes piano restoration & Wurlitzer piano restoration form the mainstay of our service.

Growing up in business with classic instruments, they are a major interest and commitment. Improvements and changes in technology are taken on board as they happen. The Service Zone is reccomended for Roland repairs as well as for many other marques. An innovative approach to providing service, wide technical knowledge and experience have evolved a unique facility.

Policy declares that profit can only be a result of providing a service, not the sole reason for it. Repair quality and courtesy are considered to be utterly important. Despite Growing to be the best known full range independent electronic music service in Britain, The Service Zone is still run as a family business, with careful attention to individual customer's needs.

The Hammond Hire Company's over thirty years of experience in classic instrument hire and zealous regard for quality are a perfect complement. That ultimate facility is available for all.

From 1978 to 1994 Ron Lebar served as a London Borough Councilor. Eight years in opposition then eight years in the victorious controlling party. Winning four successive local elections with a steadily increasing majority.

From 1986 many cherished plans were put into practice and the Authority became the most innovative in modern history. In that year, with the dissolution of the I.L.E.A. he became a member of a newly formed Education Authority, learning much about the problems facing schools and helping solve many at a local level.

In eight years the Authority went from the most deprived in Britain to some way up the National League Tables.

At the 1994 election he re-assessed priorities, standing down in order to concentrate on home and business. Passing the baton to a chosen successor. Knowledge gained from Education Committee Membership was put to use at The Service Zone with a policy of providing Music service within school's budgets.

A trouble-making tendency, that got him into Local politics, is still active, but put to use in different ways. We will campaign on any issue that seems relevant, using whatever means are available. This World needs a lot of help if it is to continue sustaining human presence.

Ron et Louise + Tiny. A Dedicated Team, the Complete Music Service.

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