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Welcome to my web site.  I am an amateur fiddler, from which I derive a lot of pleasure.  I also play viola—nine years with the Greenville, S.C. Symphony, then a long hiatus, and now with a great community orchestra, The Lake Murray Symphony. 

For many years I bought old violins in antique stores, flea markets, and elsewhere, all the while thinking I might try to have a violin repair business.  I learned to take them apart, reglue them, fit pegs, fit soundposts, and a few other things.  I have sold a few, but have accumulated about 30.  Some of them sound really good.

Recently I have been able to purchase strings and instruments wholesale.  I have a Chinese-made 5-string violin that I enjoy playing—somehow having the D string in the middle of the bridge is hard to deal with.  Also have been playing an inexpensive but very good carbon fiber bow—it compares very well with my French $2,000+ bow.

Finally I decided to try to supply instruments and strings in the midlands of South Carolina.  I don’t plan to have a store front or to carry much inventory—so I can give very good prices.  I will also do minor repairs and farm out major repairs to people I trust.

 

Mail to:  Van Price

431 Shuler Court

Columbia, South Carolina, 29212

(this is not a business address)

 

To contact us:

Phone: 803-727-8073

E-mail:vanprice@bellsouth.net

That’s it for the website today, February 1, 2007.

I will add pictures and price lists later.  The prices will be retail prices, but I will negotiate a surprising amount on most items.

 

Violins, violas, cellos, bows, cases, strings, pegs, tuners, rosin, stands.  I don’t know much about mandolins, guitars, or banjos but I have sources for them.

 

If you have a need give me a call or e-mail me.  I have a few I can show you, and I can order almost anything you might need.

 

By the way, I’m really a geologist—more at www.advenvsoln.com 

Member of Violin Society of America