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Violin makers in Albany, NY
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Music & Arts
Qualification
violin maker
Service
trade, repair, leasing, accessories
Particularities
Music & Arts is a music retailer specializing in sales and rentals of stringed and other instruments, sheet music and books and accessories. At more than 200 retail locations, 140 educational representatives and 100 affiliate locations even repair servcies and music lessons are being offered.
A Violin Shop – Frank Marchitto
Qualification
bow maker
Service
trade, repair, leasing
Particularities
Frank Marchitto's shop is situated about 35 min by car from the center of Albany, New York and offers both new and antique stringed instruments and bows for sale and for rental. Marchitto is professionally trained in repair and restoration to violins, violas and cellos.
Opening hours
Saturdays open
John Keal Music Company Inc.
Qualification
violin maker
Service
trade, repair, leasing, accessories
Particularities
John Keal Music provides musical instruments and accessories in Albany and Clifton Park, New York. In its orchestral instruments section there are violins, violas, cellos and basses available, accessories for stringed instruments including lesson books, rental offers and repair services.
Opening hours
Monday open, Saturdays open
Segel Violins Bows & Accessories
Qualification
violin maker
Service
trade, repair, accessories
Particularities
Segel Violins Bows & Accessories is a music store specialized in stringed instruments. It offers violins, accessories and basic luthier services such as bow rehairing. A small selection of other musical instruments, drums, whistles, recorders and sheet music, is available from the shop in Troy, NY.
Shaker Violin – Steve Iachetta
Qualification
violin maker
Service
trade, repair, accessories
Particularities
Steve Iachetta is an active musician and provides luthier services and violin sales from his Latham shop. Shaker Violins offers fine and student instruments at affordable prices, including a one-year full service warranty. The workshop is solar powered and recycles used materials at a large scale.
Regh Violins – Joseph Regh
Qualification
master violinmaker, restorer
Service
trade, new building, repair, restoration, leasing, accessories
Particularities
Regh Violins was founded by the renowned expert violin maker Joseph Regh, who apprenticed with John and Zoltan Toth and established his atelier in 1974. Regh served as vice president of the Violin Society of America, was a member of the Board of Directors and served many other international institutions in the world of stringed instruments and published books and other publications on violin restoration.
Regh Violins has branches in Albany, Wappingers Fall and Poughkeepsie, New York, and offers a selection of interesting antique and contemporary instruments for sale and for rental. Luthier services including restoration are available at the ateliers in Wappingers Fall and Poughkeepsie.
Francis Morris Violins
Qualification
master violinmaker, restorer
Service
trade, new building, repair, restoration, leasing, accessories
Particularities
Francis Morris is a leading restorer, violin expert and luthier, who studied at the Mittenwald School of Violin Making and subsequently worked for some of the most renowned ateliers worldwide: Fritz and Michael Baumgartner in Basel, Switzerland, Hans Weisshaar and Robert Cauer in Los Angeles. He established his own workshop in Great Barrington, MA in 1984 and specialized as a restorer and dealer of finest stringed instruments and bows.
As a maker, Morris won a Certificate of Merit for Tone from the Violin Society of America.
Francis Morris sells a selection of restored antique violins, violas and cellos, and new works by him and his shop foreman Michael Anthony Daddona. Workshop instruments are imported, unfinished violins, that are finalized in his workshop, as a more affordable option. He offers violin, viola and cello bows of all qualities, accessories and luthier services.
Francis Morris provides a rental program even for highest quality instruments, with credit for future purchases.
The Albany office is a branch of Francis Morris' workshop in Great Barrington, MA; visits by appointment are possible on Wednesday evenings.