A private appointment, a selection prepared for you, and time to play.
Choosing an instrument is personal, and it goes best without an audience. When you visit, the showroom is yours for the appointment: no other clients, no one waiting for their turn, and no one listening over your shoulder.
Tell us beforehand what you are looking for and the price range you have in mind. We use that to prepare for you, so the time you spend here goes on playing rather than on sorting through instruments that were never right for you.
Before you arrive, we set out a deliberately limited selection, chosen around what you want and your price range. We keep it small so each instrument gets a fair hearing, and we make sure it covers real differences in tonal character.
You will have private time to play at your own pace. Everyone here is an accomplished musician, but we won’t perform for you or play along unless you ask us to.
Bring the instrument you play now. Hearing it beside the others is the quickest way to know what a new one does differently, and what it does better.
Your teacher, a colleague, anyone whose ear you trust is welcome. Parents and students often come together, and that works well.
We will answer any factual question candidly, including who made an instrument, what we know of its history and condition, and what it costs.
Nobody is expected to decide in an afternoon. If an instrument deserves a second visit or a trial at home, we will arrange it.
