There you go.
Best wishes,
Jerry
I am a bit stunned that I actually suggested going to an auto body shop. I don’t know what could have possessed me since I do know that people go to school to learn to repair musical instruments—I believe there is a school in Red Wing, Minnesota, not that far from where I live. Anyway, my apologies to instrument makers and repairers who must have thought I held them in low esteem indeed. It was just one of those psychotic episode things.
ho, lichatt, was that bicycle for you or for your little boy? 
I know about magnetic dent removal, but the hohner is not an expensive silver
plated flute, so i just ask if someone make this in a personal maner that i don’t hear about.
For now i can still play the flute, and soon, a two parts clare with a withecap 
The bicycle? a big one in two place, so i can turn around the table with my son, and play whistle in the same time.
Sounds like a great idea!
Actually, most auto body shops don’t even remove dents, they just fill the dent will putty, sand it relatively smooth and then paint the whole panel.
Loren
I think you would be a handy fellow to have around, Loren. The combination of a Paintless Dent Repair Technician and instrument maker/restorer is hard to beat! But if they paint over the putty why are you called “Paintless”?
Ah, yes! Pounding dents out of a sax with a broken drum stick and a rock.
Band camp…
Denny
Yes well, I try to make myself useful, although my paychecks don’t always reflect that
The process I described above, filling in with putty (Bondo) and then painting over, is the typical autobody shop way to repair body damage. Paintless dent repair is another technique entirely: With PDR you use metal tools worked in behind the metal body panel to “massage” the dent out a little at a time - a dent the size of a quarter may take 100-300 precisely placed pushes, a baseball size dent can take over 1000 pushes or more. The standard putty and paint type repair is more expensive and diminishes the value of your vehicle (the damage hasn’t actually been fixed, the paint never really matches, etc.), while paintless dent repair returns the car to it’s original condition at a fraction of the cost.
Still, for huge dents and major collision damage, or anything where the paint is damaged, a body shop is the only option, since PDR techniques and tools will currently only handle dents up to around the size of a football, assuming the tech is skilled enough to handle it. And PDR obviously can’t restore missing or cracked paint.
Loren
By the way, one could remove the dent in a whistle using standard silver/metalsmithing techniques by placing the instrument on an apropriate mandrel and then hammering, but I didn’t mention that since it does require some training, or one risks REALLY messing the instrument up. I have repaired dented whistles this way, but of course I have access to more of the proper tools than most folks.
Loren