About Us
ElectroTone Service is a Musical Instrument repair company based out of Cincinnati, Ohio.
We provide on site service calls, and carry In shop repairs to variety of musical instruments. We stand behind providing professional quality work you can trust, with close attention to detail for all repairs and restorations. We emphasize the importance of proper care for the longevity of any instrument we work on. Most importantly, musical instrument repair is more than just a job for us, it is our passion.
Electro Tone Service is proudly operated by musicians, and technicians who understand what you expect from your instrument.
While based in Cincinnati, We also frequently travel to Columbus Ohio, Dayton Ohio, Lexington Kentucky, Louisville Kentucky, Indianapolis Indiana. We are not limited within these cities and often travel further and everywhere in between. Please contact us for more details.
Our Mission
At Electro Tone Service our mission is to preserve the soul of music by providing musicians with expert quality repair, restoration and care for both vintage and modern instruments. We are dedicated to combining craftsmanship with the technical precision needed to ensure every keyboard, organ, or piece of equipment that we service performs at its absolute best. Allowing musicians to continue creating and inspiring generations to come.
How it Started
Electro Tone Service was founded in 2025 by Dawson Hooker.
Dawson began his musical journey at the age of five, starting with the piano. He took a few lessons but was largely self taught. Throughout school, he played various instruments including saxophone, and guitar.
Dawson was always tinkering with new sounds, chasing tones, and trying to recreate the music that inspired him. This curiosity quickly expanded beyond just playing, as he began modifying his own guitars, and helping friends and acquaintances with theirs. His passion grew into building and modifying tube amplifiers, guitars, and ultimately Hammond Organs and Keyboards. Dawson has since spent countless hours reading schematics and studying electronics specifically related to tube guitar amplifiers, electric pianos, and electronic organs.
At the beginning of his professional career Dawson came across a heavily modified and damaged Hammond B3 organ. This organ had everything wrong, that could be wrong. The project became a full-scale restoration: refinishing the cabinet, overhauling the keyboards, and reviving the electronics.
That B3 restoration proved to be a defining moment that connected him with a local long standing organ repair company. Where he worked several years maintaining hundreds of repairs yearly. From Hammond organs to digital pianos, synthesizers, and keyboards, he immersed himself in the craft, developing the technical expertise and passion that continues to define his career today.
What began as a hobby quickly developed into something much more, naturally evolving into a business dedicated to preserving and restoring musical instruments.
