Friday 21 October 2016

Regular Maintenance & Good Insurance for a Healthy Piccolo



Any instrument, when looked after for a long time with care can perform better than the ones that are not really looked after. Maintenance and care helps improve the life of a Piccolo. When accompanied with insurance, the musician's life is settled, in a way that they don't need to worry about the losses.

A Piccolo insurance according to many may sound like an unnecessary thing. But, here we will talk about the importance of care and the need for insurance to keep your Piccolo performing, and saving you from losses.

The Best Maintenance Techniques for your Piccolo
When assembling your Piccolo, you need to take care of two basic things:
  • The tenon cork is smooth and it is well-lubricated using cork grease. This is so that the fit is smooth, and there is no difficulty in assembling it
  • When you are trying to join two pieces, make sure you hold the body on the wood, just above the assembling portion, and the headjoint below the embouchure hole, so that you don't cause any breakage during assembly. Use the twisting motion to fit the two portions, without causing too much pressure
  • At any point, when you face difficulty assembling your Piccolo, get a technician to look at it
Swabbing after each play
For a long life, and good health of the instrument, it is in your best interests to swab the instrument insides after each play. It is always good to use a silk oboe swab so that you can easily remove the condensation along the insides of the instrument. The life of the pads is increased with this swabbing exercise.

Protection
Piccolos are sensitive to extreme weather conditions, which is why you need to protect them from it. Make sure your Piccolo is well-protected when you are traveling from one extreme to the other. If you make the transit without protection, it may crack the wood inside, which can cause a major issue with the instrument.

Insulating the Piccolo case for extreme weather conditions is a good idea. Also make sure you have warmed up the headjoint by blowing into the embouchure hole, so that the wood does not crack up. Use cotton damped cloth to remove the fingerprints.

Insuring your Piccolo for Long Life
In order to ensure your Piccolo lives a long and healthy life, it is important to get the gear insured. The reason being, in case of transit or theft, you do not fact any losses.

But, choosing the ideal plan is very important for your Piccolo. This is why we have come up with a few points that might help you choose an ideal plan
  • Know the Plan: It is important to know the plan you are buying for your instrument insurance. What is the exact sum insured, and what all does the policy cover are two important aspects that you need to consider when investing in a policy
  • Affordability: When you are buying insurance, affordability is a question that you may need to concern yourself with. Read all the clauses, and keep an eye on the negative impact it will have on your finances, while saying yes to any plan
  • Custom Insurance: Always know what you want to buy, and what all you want covered in the policy. This will help you know what kind of insurance you want. It is preferred to go for a custom Piccolo insurance to keep your gear intact with the clauses you have identified
Musical Instruments INS is a prominent Piccolo insurance company that will craft custom insurance policies that are suited to your gear's needs. Identify your insurance needs, and connect with us.

Thursday 20 October 2016

Should You Go for a Music Instructor Insurance?



As an independent music instructor, this is a critical question, one that you cannot ignore. When you have insured your gears, and possess a home owner's insurance, the question arises why you need music instructor insurance?

First, you need to know why you should buy music instructor insurance, and then move on to understand what all should be covered to make it ideal. Let's go through it one by one.

Imagine, you have a music studio with all your gears functioning real well, and one fine day it gets burglarized. That could be one of the most dreaded days in the life of a musician. Nothing is left for you to honor your life as a musician, and plus the losses that you have to suffer as a result is also massive.

The next big thing that could wreak your life is someone slipping near your studio, and you having to pay for it. All because you left it unshoveled! This could be a potential for loss in your case. Of course, being sick and not being able to work means you have to stop your only source of income. Losses and more losses! What if you are the only breadwinner in the house, and you have a major accident or you die. What happens to the family?

What we have just said here have all been gone through by someone or the other in their life. It is not easy to stay upright in the eye of losses. This is precisely why you ought to be insured. This would help you swim through your losses, and get back to the shore in the best way possible.

There are some things that you ought to consider when buying the music instructor insurance. These covers should be included in the clauses.
  • Liability: This is the first cover point that you need to consider when looking for insurance. Someone falls near your house, and then it becomes a liability for you. Adding the umbrella clause to homeowner's policy should be fine for those working from home. But, if you have a retail space, you may need to add the clause to your business policy. Check for all the liability clauses added to the policy.
  • Property: Burglarized, vandalized, fire outage etc. can be easily covered with the instructor insurance that has the property clause included in it. You can always get these covers in your home/business policy, but getting a separate policy always works in your favour. Ensure all the instruments and relevant business assets are a part of the policy
  • Worker's Compensation: This is yet another important cover, especially if you have an institute that hires people. A music teacher on-board gets injured, what's the best you have got to deal with the situation? Getting the worker's compensation included in the policy will help you settle your losses
  • Disability & Life Insurance: Adding this cover means, in case you are involved in an accident, and you lose your life or, your body parts, you can always gain compensation through the insurance cover
    Again, getting the accident covered in the insurance policy ensures that you are compensated for the losses induced by the accident
  • Health Insurance: Not all days are supposed to be good! There will be days when you fall sick or, suffer from some weird disease. This is why you need a health insurance. It will settle all your health related issues, and provide you complete cover for hospitals
Music Instrument INS completes all your music instructor insurance needs by including all the covers mentioned here. Get in touch with their insurance experts to get details on insurance premium, cover and other relevant details to get your space insured today.

Sunday 2 October 2016

Spend Some Time Choosing the Right Clarinet Insurance Plan

When you go to buy your first, very own Clarinet or Flute, don't you spend quality time researching on the net, going through all the available data, recommendations, and even visit a few legal sites before you choose the instrument that defines your needs?

What is it that you do to buy your instrument?
  • You look through the brands
  • Research on how they differ in the functions, and performance
  • Appearance, and quality check
  • Are they the right size
  • Finally, do they match your instrument needs
Once, you are done with this checklist, you begin working on where to buy the instrument from.
If you devote some quality time on the clarinet insurance or, even the flute, you may be able to protect the instrument that you have just bought after putting in a lot of efforts.

You need to get the insurance, when you don't even need it, so that you have safeguarded the future of your instrument

Sometimes the insurance goes beyond the value of the instrument, and here's why you need to give it a small thought.

What would you do in case your Clarinet or Flute is stolen? The first thought would be to file a complaint against the theft, but how far would that get you? Would you be able to recover the costs? What if you have a concert just when the theft occurred? These questions are never answered, and these are the reasons why you need an insurance plan for your instrument.

Here are a few things that might help you choose the right plan.

Research Well
Before getting started with the insurance plan, you need to research well on all the available insurance plans. There are a few brands that offer all instrument insurance, while there are others that offer insurance plans for a select few. You need to identify the brands that offer insurance for your instrument, and list them down. Now, before you begin with the actual research, write down what all you want to insure your instrument for.
Now, start identifying the covers these brands offer, and prepare a comparison chart of these brands. Finally, you should compare it with what you need. This research will help you identify the brands you ought to consider.

Check the Reviews
There are a lot of online reviews available for the different insurance brands. You will need to view the reviews given to each one of them. These reviews will help you know which brand is good, and which one has not been able to help the customers with the right plans. Reviews are very important, so make sure you spend some time on it.

Customizing the Plan
Once you have selected the brand that you want to go with, you need to start customizing the plan to meet your particular demands. This is something that will help you with making the insurance cost affordable, and will make it impeccable for your needs.

Choosing the right plan can be quite a work, but it pays off when the disaster hits.
With this, you are ready to get started with your travel and concert plans. This flute insurance has insured you against all calamities and issues.

Clarion INS can be your musical insurance partner, offering highly customized and affordable musical instrument insurance and providing enough backend support after you have bought the insurance.