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.

   - Christine Spiak & Lee Raymond 
               Co-owners of High Strung