Established in 1998, Valley Musician’s Repair offers world-class service on guitars and amplifiers, and well as custom-tailored instruments of uncompromising quality.  Our facility in Diamond Valley, California is conveniently located in the heart of Riverside County, minutes from Temecula, Murrieta, Riverside, Hemet and San Jacinto, and can be reached in under an hour from San Bernardino/Redlands, Palm Springs, and Fallbrook.
Valley Musician’s Repair is a Gold-Level Fender Authorized service center, and performs all aspects of guitar and amp repair.

ABOUT VMR

Sole proprietor and luthier Kevin Gault began experimenting with electronics and learning guitar at the age of seven.  He learned systemic troubleshooting from his father, a career musician, producer/arranger and founder of Microsonics, one of the first computer music companies in the world (Clark Gault actually had to build his own PC out of parts back in the days when 120 kilo-bytes was a lot of memory and floppy disks really were floppy)!

Kevin worked as a professional musician for 10 years between 1983-1993, nominated twice for the San Diego Music Award, and winning in 1992 with his group Nemesis for Best Nightclub Rock before he became a Christian and retired to start a family, taking up guitar repair full time (long time friend Dan Altilio of Top Gear Guitar Pro Shop in San Diego inspired Kevin to pick up the trade).

In 1993 Kevin and his wife moved to St. Paul, MN, and Kevin took a position at Eclipse Concert Systems managing their new St. Louis Park shop, repairing instruments and rigging sound systems.  From 1994-1998 he apprenticed with Martin Reynolds, luthier, at General Music in St. Paul, MN, and well known throughout the twin cities as the best place to take an ailing guitar (Kevin had to promise to forget everything he ever knew before Marty would take him on).  Somewhere along the way, a friend offered to sell him a 1964 Super Reverb amp that wasn’t working for only $200, so Kevin bought a book and taught himself amp repair.  In 1998 Kevin’s wife Karin decided she’d had enough snow for ten lifetimes and convinced him to return to Southern California (“I’m going home!  Are you coming?!?”  Nuff-said), so the Gaults returned and set up shop in Murrieta, CA.  Kevin was fortunate to find a job working for Suhr Guitars in Lake Elsinore as the 4th man just as John Suhr was getting established.  It was a humbling experience for a “hotshot” guitar builder, but never having worked in a world-class guitar factory, Kevin learned how perfect a boutique guitar should be, skills that he continues to perfect to the present day.  When the cost of living in Southern California proved too high to survive on a guitar builder’s wages, Kevin took a sales job to make ends meet, and began building his own guitar repair business.

Today, Valley Musician’s Repair is known throughout the Inland Empire as a reliable repair resource to professional musicians and collectors alike, receiving referrals from local music shops throughout Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, and even a few from out-of-state.  The mission is simple: fix it right and give great service.  Call Valley Musician’s Repair today, and find out why so many of the I.E.’s great musicians trust their equipment to no one else.