Baroque Violin Shop
The Baroque Violin Shop, founded in 1974 by Paul Bartel, works with customers around the country providing exceptional service along with quality violins, violas, cellos and basses. We offer competitive pricing, professional setup and luthier services for our rental and purchase customers so they can play the instruments we love. We are so appreciative of the opportunity to spread the joy of music through musicians young and old.
RENTAL PROGRAM
Baroque Violin Shop has the best, and one of the largest, rental programs in the country. Although we're based in Cincinnati, we serve all 50 states through online rentals, and our national reps. It’s our goal to make it affordable for any student to rent from us and to have access to the highest quality student instrument. Instead of offering different levels of instruments at varying price points, we rent one level of high-quality instrument at an exceptional price.
We work hard to keep our costs low because we believe that money should not prevent anyone from learning a string instrument.
INSTRUMENT SALES
We carry a wide range of violins, violas, cellos and basses for customers of all abilities, from beginner to advanced, at various price points. We hand-pick our instruments direct from the makers to ensure they are of the highest quality and meet our standards. In addition to our inventory of contemporary instruments we also have a large selection of rare and vintage instruments that we have collected over time.
Our current rental customers can use rental credit towards the purchase of a new instrument. To get your current balance please email us.
LUTHIER SERVICES
Our luthier staff is available for personal instrument or bow repair. From minor repair work or touch up all the way to full restorations they are happy to asses your instrument and provide you with a fair quote for the work to be completed along with a reasonable turn around time.
Visit our luthier page to view images of work completed along with a list of services offered.