Great service! Great selection! Very knowledgeable , Good Value on Rentals and repairs.

After a tonal enhancement we found so many extra unfinished (raw) pieces. When we contacted Peter he was rude and condescending. Peter is unprofessional both in workmanship and mannerisms. My advice - don't do it. Actual rating: 0 read more

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Don't walk away - RUN! Do not even THINK about letting this man anywhere NEAR your instrument. He is a HACK of the worst kind. He took a bow of mine worth over $3000 and convinced me to try his synthetic violin bow hair. Here's a similar bow for sale: https://www.myluthier.co/product/lothar-hermann-violin-bow His literature advertised that "It rehairs the same as horsehair". This is a bald faced lie! Instead of using the appropriate methods, he FILLED the tip and frog with SUPERGLUE!!!!! The synthetic bow hair didn't play very well, but I had decided to try it, so I accepted that I'd just flushed sixty bucks down the toilet. However, within a week of his "rehair" about 40% of the hair fell out in a large chunk, so I realized I'd been dealing with someone who didn't know what he was doing. After discussing this with friends at my orchestra, I learned that others had had some pretty bad experiences with the man: 1) He destroyed the tone on one woman's violin by putting some kind of spray or finish on her violin without even consulting her. 2) Another woman told me that he sold a gullible woman a viola for almost 5000 dollars that she later found was worth only about 850 bucks. I had to take it to a REAL luthier to remove the glue, reconstruct a part of the frog that he ruined and repair it - to the tune of $444. When I approached him to be compensated for his incompetence, he offered me " 100 dollars, take it or call a lawyer". He then hid behind his staff like a coward and had them throw me out of his office. I had been polite and acted properly so there was no need for that level of rudeness. If I can update this, I'll update it after I sue him. If you want that type of "customer service" and lack of keeping your word, then, more power to you. RUN!!!! UPDATE : Mr. Zaret's response to my report of his business practices is telling. From one side of his mouth he claims that he "stands by OUR work" yet he refuses to correct the financial loss I incurred due to his incompetence. Seriously, if someone misrepresented that they would use the same methods as horsehair -from his literature - "rehairs the same as horshair" -: and then you found out they used SUPERGLUE on your high end three thousand dollar bow, would you trust them to repair it? If he wants me to have my friends post their negative experiences to negate his claims of 'hearsay evidence", I suspect they will do so. His claim of having attended a prestigious music school only speaks to him having been born with a silver spoon in his mouth and says nothing about his moral fiber or character. His refusal to accept responsibility for the damage he created speaks much louder. As far as the repair being over priced, he never even read the receipt to see what had to be repaired. The superglue destroyed/fused the ebony slider plank which then had to be replaced along with considerable painstaking effort to remove the glue and restore the bow. Mr. Zaret, through his incompetence, forced me to have this repaired by a REPUTABLE luthier. It required extensive work and quality workmanship is not cheap. CHEAP workmanship, as I unfortunately learned by making the mistake of trusting Mr. Zaret with my expensive, high quality bow - can be EXPENSIVE, I learned this the hard way by trusting Mr. Zaret. RUN.... read more

Peter and his team are amazing people and musicians. I bought a Francesco Monzino viola from him in 2018 and I loved his tonal enhancements he has implemented. He and his team are innovators to the string instrumental world so some of his "enhancements" are controversial and looked upon very skeptically. However, I have enjoyed his innovations and enhancements he has done with my instrument. If you are wanting to try his tonal enhancement but do not want to put your instrument on the table just yet, I would recommend trying one of his instruments before committing. read more

Wonderful choice of stringed instruments. Extremely knowledgeable staff. I appreciate how they spend their time with each customer and explain their products thoroughly. My daughter is ecstatic about her new violin because of it's tone, resounding sound and aesthetics. We will purchase all of our stringed instruments from them in the future. read more