stamell stringed instruments

Stamell Stringed Instruments is a shop devoted to the violin family of instruments and bows. Specializing in violin, viola, cello, and their bows, the store hosts its own in-house makers, including Andranik Gaybaryan and Cedar Stanistreet, Troy Harris (mandolins), and the shop's very own Matt Stamell.

Matt Stamell started making instruments in 1974 while a student at Hobart College. Upon graduation in 1978, he enrolled in Boston University’s Program in Artisanry where he studied with Don Warnock. Matt spent many years making guitars and repairing violins, until opening his own shop in 1989 in Amherst. Stamell Stringed Instruments has since become a leading provider in violins, violas, cellos, and bows to the string playing community in New England and beyond. Matt has since then opened a second branch of the shop in Poughkeepsie, NY in 2008 to serve the Hudson Valley string community.

Matt Stamell now makes and restores violin family instruments, and continues to devote himself to instruments and the musicians who play them. With a goal to provide the best services to their customers at fair and reasonable prices, Stamell Stringed Instruments represents many of the best makers living today.