High Strung Bowed Rentals

High Strung Violins & Guitars
Rental Program

Bowed Rentals

Our website tells you everything you need to know to be well-informed about renting your student's violin, viola or cello.

But first, a note to parents:

Most parents are anxious about buying or renting their child's first violin, viola or cello. You are shopping "blind" so to speak, since most parents have no background in the
instrument. It's not a comfortable situation.

We try our best at High Strung to alleviate as much of the anxiety as possible. First, we educate the student and parent about the instruments - this takes time but we think it's important to get everyone comfortable with the instrument and its care.

Secondly, once you're in our shop, you'll quickly see that we actually care about your student's success with the instrument. We don't view the instruments as commodities (like the internet and bigger stores do) nor do we view you and your student as numbers.

We want you and your student to be excited about playing the instrument. That excitement is vital to continued success.

Christine Spiak,
Co-owner of High Strung

Rental Credit Towards Purchase:

You can use 100% of the rent you pay on-time to pay for up to half of any single new, regularly-priced violin, viola or cello we carry in the store.

This is not a rent-to-own program; it is a rent program that offers a purchase
credit for rent paid on time.

Rental credit does not apply to consignment or sale-priced and discounted instruments.

Make sure you pay on time, because you can't use late-paid rent to purchase an instrument!

You have 60 days after you return your rental instrument to use the rent paid to buy an instrument.

About Brand Names and Violins

Parents call me all the time and say "Do you carry X-Brand?" or "My child's teacher says I should get a Z-Brand Violin." If the violin sounds great and plays well, I couldn't care less about the name on the inside. I hand pick every instrument for sale and rent at High
Strung. Sometimes they are famous brands, and sometimes they are from such small shops that there's no way they would be well-known names.

Violins are wooden instruments, and each one, even within the same make and model, will vary in terms of its tone and workmanship. Buying a violin isn't like buying an iPod or Shampoo; it's more like buying a horse or a house. An iPod can be mass produced with consistent, nearly identical results, which makes it an ideal commodity to market on the internet. Horses, houses, and violins all have characteristics that can be generalized, but each individual one may be very different from the next.

I tend to work with companies that provide good service and consistently good instruments. But I don't hesitate to send instruments back if they don't meet my
standards for what I want in an instrument at a particular price level.

- Christine

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