Chimera Services — Music · Mechatronics

What I do

Five crafts, one standard

Every service below gets the same treatment: honest pricing, clear communication, and work I'm proud to sign. Pick a lane or mix and match.

Composition · Theory · Instrument Lessons

Guitar, mandolin, theory, and composition — taught by a working musician with a music degree and twenty years on stage.

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Photo Archival / Digital Restoration

Shoeboxes of prints become organized, searchable digital archives. Fragile originals handled with care, damaged photos restored by hand.

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Web Design · Home Cloud Builds

Clean, fast small-business websites — and personal cloud servers that put your files back under your own roof.

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Electronic Repair · Automation

Bench-level diagnostics and repair, plus custom automation builds — from Arduino prototypes to Raspberry Pi systems.

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Wine Consulting · Cellar Logistics

Ten years in wine, five running brands grape to bottle. Cellar organization, inventory, and practical consulting.

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Music lessons

Learn from a working musician

Guitar · Mandolin · Theory · Composition

I teach guitar (all levels), mandolin, music theory, and composition — from first chords to advanced harmony. My own path runs from a music composition degree through gamelan in Bali, the saz in Turkey, and twenty years of gigging, including a weekly gypsy-jazz residency. Lessons are one-on-one, paced to you, and always musical — technique serves the song, not the other way around.

Single Lesson

$60 / hour

One-on-one, in person or video
Guitar, mandolin, theory, or composition
Practice plan after every session

Four-Lesson Pack

$220 / 4 hours

Everything in a single lesson
Save $20 over drop-in rate
Structured month-long arc

Pricing is a starting point — every student gets a plan built around their goals. Reach out and tell me where you're at.

Photo archival & scanning

Your memories, safe for the next generation

Shoeboxes, albums, and fragile originals — scanned on professional equipment, organized with care, and delivered as a lasting digital archive.

Scanning tiers

Shoebox Special

$0.10 / photo

1,000+ photos, bulk rate
300 dpi JPEG
The volume loss-leader

Bulk

$0.25 / photo

100+ photos
300 dpi JPEG
Basic organization

Archival

$0.50 / photo

600 dpi TIFF + JPEG
Full organization & naming
Best for family archives

Fragile & Oversized

$2.00 / photo

Flatbed scanning by hand
Delicate & odd-size originals
White-glove handling

Restoration

$35 / photo

Hand retouching
Tears, fading & damage repaired
Print-ready file

Cloud Bundle

+$200 add-on

Archive hosted on your own home cloud
Shareable family links
Pairs with a Home Cloud build

Pricing is a starting point — every collection is different. Tell me what you've got and I'll quote it properly.

Home cloud builds

Your files, under your own roof

A personal Nextcloud server on a Raspberry Pi — your photos, documents, and media, synced and shareable, with no monthly ransom to big tech. I build it, configure it, and hand you the keys.

Build tiers

Basic

$500

1 TB storage
Nextcloud file sync & sharing
Setup + handover walkthrough

Plus

$750

2 TB storage
Everything in Basic
Media streaming (Jellyfin)

Pro

$1,000

4 TB storage
Everything in Plus
Network ad-blocking + VPN

Care plans

Basic Care

$30 / month

Updates & health checks
Backup verification
Email support

Plus Care

$50 / month

Everything in Basic Care
Priority support
Remote troubleshooting

Pricing is a starting point — every home network is different. Let's talk about what you need yours to do.

Web design

A website that just works

Small-business sites, flat and honest

No page builders holding your content hostage, no surprise fees. A clean, fast, mobile-friendly site you own outright — hosting set up in your name, so you're never locked in.

5-Page Site

$500 flat

Five pages, custom design
Mobile-responsive
Contact form & maps
Hosting in your name

Per Change

$50 / change

Text, photo & content updates
Quick turnaround
No subscription required

Care Plan

$250 / month

Ongoing updates & tweaks
Uptime monitoring
Priority support

Pricing is a starting point — bigger builds and e-commerce get custom quotes. Describe your project.

Electronic repair & automation

Fixed right, built to last

Bench repair · Custom builds

From a dead amplifier to a sensor network for your shop — I diagnose at the component level and build automation around Raspberry Pi and Arduino platforms. If it's got a circuit board, I can probably help.

Bench Diagnostics

$75

Full fault diagnosis
Written repair estimate
Credited toward the repair

Repairs

Quoted per job

Transparent parts + labor
No fix, no labor charge
Tested before handover

Custom Automation

Quoted per project

Arduino / Raspberry Pi builds
Sensors, control & monitoring
Documentation included

Pricing is a starting point — every repair and build is unique. Tell me what's broken (or what you want built).

Wine consulting & cellar logistics

A decade in the cellar, at your service

Cellars organized · Wines understood

I spent ten years in the wine industry — the last five as a winemaker running five brands from grape to bottle, handling everything from harvest logistics to production machinery. Whether your cellar is twelve bottles or twelve hundred, I'll bring order to it and help you drink it well.

Cellar Visit

$150 / visit

Organization & layout
Inventory & cataloging
Drink-now vs. hold guidance

Consulting

$100 / hour

Buying & collecting advice
Event & pairing planning
Industry questions, answered

Pricing is a starting point — larger cellars and ongoing consulting get custom quotes. Let's talk wine.

About

The human behind the chimera

Music · Mechatronics · Consulting

One umbrella for the work I love — teaching music, preserving memories, building personal technology, and sharing a decade of winemaking craft.

Andrew Geldmeier is a builder by trade and a musician by calling. After ten years in the wine industry — five of them as a winemaker running five brands from grape to bottle — he's now studying mechatronics at Sierra College and building Chimera Services: one umbrella for teaching, preserving, making, and fixing.

On stage he plays mandolin with Live Music Compadres, a gypsy-jazz string band with a Tuesday residency in Dutch Flat, California. Off stage he's soldering boards, scanning family archives, and teaching the next generation of players.

The chimera — lion, goat, and serpent in one body — is the honest mascot: several crafts, one standard of care.

Contact

Let's start something

Lessons, scans, builds, repairs, cellars — or just a question. I read everything myself.

andrew@chimeraservices.org

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@chimeraservices

Web

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Payments

Venmo @chimeraservices