Our goal is to make the process of selecting an instrument as pleasant and painless as possible. We strive to provide our clients the best instruments available, restored and new.
We provide appraisals for a variety of needs, including insurance and tax issues, and Charitable Donations or Estate taxes. In the event of mishaps, we can also assist by writing evaluations of damage
There can be little doubt that growing up as the son of William Salchow, one of the greatest North American bowmakers of his time, would set Stephen Salchow on his career path. At the tender young age
My main goal is to link both the craft of violin making/ restoration and the performance practices of the current musicians. I have been devoted to the study of Baroque music and the playing applica
We design, create and distribute our proprietary products under our own independently developed brands, including “Artino”, “OTTO” and “MUCO”. Otto Musica also represents and distributes
Menzel studied lutherie with the famous Carleen Hutchins of Montclair, New Jersey, whose works can be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He was also the Secretary of the Catgut Acoust
Frank Saam began to study the art of violin making as a child. He apprenticed at the House of Primavera until he was 18. After graduating high school he moved to Belgium to work as a restorer for one
Since 1979, when we started out with a simple paper catalog, a touch-tone phone and a modest supply of strings and instruments, our goal has been to provide violinists, violists, cellists & double
I made my first violin in 1990. Since then I have been making violas and violins, in the Italian tradition, one at a time, for players across the country and around the world. As of October 2015, I
Christopher Germain began his career in violinmaking in 1982, as a pupil of Tschu Ho Lee at the Chicago School of Violinmaking. After graduating in 1985, he worked for the Chicago firms, Kenneth Warre
English studio musician John Pearse first began researching into music string manufacture in the mid-sixties. The first person, ever, to teach guitar on television – his BBC lessons have been se
Otto Musica Corporation is the Strings & Accessories Group of Messiah Enterprises, which was established in 1974.
Through our deep bench of string instrument specialists and world-wide network, al
