Antonio Strings is one of Australasia’s leading shops specializing in the sale, repair and restoration, and appraisal of violins, violas, cellos, and their bows. A large range of instruments, bows, accessories, and strings are always available to choose from catering for students through to professionals.
A unique characteristic is the available range of high quality, affordable student instruments. These instruments are specially set up in the Antonio Strings workshop. This enables the instruments to perform to their full potential and ensures that the instruments are easy to play. Many students are defeated by instruments that are poorly set up. Antonio Strings takes particular care to ensure that this does not happen with our instruments.
Setting up or preparing an instrument for optimum performance requires extensive knowledge and skill. The Antonio Strings workshop is one of the leading workshops in the Southern Hemisphere having highly professional staff who have looked after many fine instruments used by leading players from throughout the world.
Many visiting soloists including Nigel Kennedy, Lynn Harrel, Rachel Barton, Eugene Sarbu, Eugene Fordor, and Boris Belkin to name but a few, have called upon our service.
Worth special mention is Antonio Strings excellent trade-in policy. Many parents worry about the cost of buying successive violins/cellos for their children as they grow, and consider renting instead. Antonio Strings' policy allows parents, after making an initial purchase, to buy-up with minimum outlay, making it cheaper and far more worthwhile in the long run to buy than to rent an instrument which is likely to be badly set up and of a poorer sound quality.
Antonio Strings also offers an excellent appraisal service. Many people own instruments but are unaware of their current value or are faced with purchasing instruments that they are unsure of. A quick visit to Antonio Strings can save people a lot of money and anxiety.