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BUSINESS HOURS AND DIRECTIONSCONTACT USABOUT USMISSION STATEMENTTRYING OUT INSTRUMENTSCOMMENTS FROM OUR CLIENTSTHE LONG ISLAND VIOLIN SHOP IN THE NEWSPRIVACY POLICY
BUSINESS HOURS AND DIRECTIONSTo serve you with unhurried calm, clients are
received by appointment. From Long Island locations via the Long Island Expressway: Take the LIE to Deer Park Avenue (Exit 51). At the bottom of the exit ramp turn north onto Deer Park Avenue. Go one mile and turn left at the second of two closely spaced traffic lights onto Wolf Hill Road. Take the first right turn onto White Birch Drive. We are the third house on the left, on the corner of Balsam Drive. The entrance faces White Birch Drive and is indicated by a white violin. From Long Island locations via the Northern State Parkway: Take the Northern State Parkway to Deer Park Avenue (Exit 42S). Head south on Deer Park Avenue for half a mile and turn right onto Wolf Hill Road at the first of two closely spaced traffic lights. Take the first right turn onto White Birch Drive. We are the third house on the left, on the corner of Balsam Drive. The entrance faces White Birch Drive and is indicated by a white violin. If you need directions from farther away, please let us know.
CONTACT USPlease use the directions above rather than online maps like Google or Yahoo Maps or Mapquest, all of which yield inaccurate results. Our mailing address is: The Long Island Violin Shop
E-mail: music@liviolinshop.com
ABOUT USThe Long Island Violin Shop was founded in 1983 by Charles Rufino, who returned home after ten years of study in the premier violin ateliers of Europe and America. His dream was a studio that would provide the Long Island musical community with a level of service equal to the finest world-class violin shops, with a special focus on supporting the teaching community and their students. Today that dream has served thousands with intimate, thoughtful, caring service. We offer violins, violas, and cellos of excellent value for players of all ages and levels of accomplishment. Our worldwide contacts among instrument and bow makers give us unique ability to locate excellent instruments and bows from artists that we know personally, not just faceless strangers. Although the Internet gives us a worldwide reach, we are a community minded business and our focus is on using technology to serve our local community better. Today we are pleased to continue our traditions of service for the newest generations of string players in the Twenty-First Century!
MISSION STATEMENTWe believe the study of music is essential to the development of joyous, well-rounded individuals and communities. Our mission is to dynamically support this ongoing process by creating an interior sense of peace, trust, and confidence between teacher, musician, and instrument. We support the teaching community interactively and gratefully with our goods and services. We joyfully provide caring, thoughtful service to every musician whether child or adult, student or professional. We are a family oriented business and are aware of the cares and concerns of the parents of student musicians. We are a community minded business and donate at least 5% of our profits to charity. We empower our clients by educating them to care for their instruments. We consistently supply instruments, bows, and services of excellent quality and value, regardless of price. We support community organizations that provide musical opportunities for musicians of all ages and levels of accomplishment. Our business habits are based on the belief that keeping an existing relationship healthy whether client, employee, or supplier are or greater value than seeking new relationships. Our business practices are open, truthful, and peaceful, and those we do business with hold us in high regard. Teachers and our other clients recognize our caring concern, recommend us frequently, and pay us promptly upon delivery. Our employees, our suppliers, and all our taxes are paid fairly and promptly. Any personal information we gather about our clients is treated with the utmost respect in conformity with our Privacy Policy. TRYING OUT INSTRUMENTSYou can easily arrange to have an instrument for tryout shipped to your home, or you can make an appointment to come in to the studio. Please contact us to first discuss your needs. To ship you an instrument we will need:
Instruments under $3,000.00 will be charged at the time of shipment. You will have two weeks to return for a full refund (exclusive of your return shipping costs). Instruments over $3,000.00 may be sent to you for a one-week trial. We will not charge your credit card at time of shipment. You will have one week to make your decision. Please note: we do not offer the three week return period to customers who have had an instrument on a one week trial. Shipping We will pay the shipping to you within the lower 48 United States. You are responsible for the return shipping on anything you send to us. Please ship via Federal Express or UPS (2 or 3-day service) with the merchandise insured for its full value.
COMMENTS FROM OUR CLIENTSI want to drop you a short note of appreciation for working with
my daughter in her pursuit of a viola. Interestingly enough, you were the only
shop that took the time and energy to talk with her at great length as to her
wishes, wants, and future aspirations regarding an instrument. Regards and Best Wishes, Thank you so much for all your patience during my first cello-buying experience. As you can surely imagine, it was a big, stressful decision for me, You were very patient, knowledgeable, and accomodating of my work schedule. Thanks again! I love my new cello!! Claudine Kiffer Thank you so very much indeed for the cello. We had so much fun much fun playing the Toy Symphony during the family reunion, and I was very happy to be able to play on this beautiful cello. Harriet Vandermeersch I’m certainly enjoying the violin. It’s been sounding great in many of my performances and I’m very grateful! Dale Stuckenbruck Thank you so much for your generosity in sponsoring prize winners at the biannual New York ASTA with NSOA Solo Competition that was held at Ithaca College this past December. Winners at the state level will continue on to the national competition in March. With all the hope of a prosperous and wonderful new millennium I again thank you for helping promote string education and string playing in New for helping promote string education and string playing in New York State Steve Thomas Thank you for your time and expertise last Saturday. I can’t properly articulate what it means to me to have the viola back in my possession and ready to play. Your video is excellent! You presentation is very good and we are planning to show it to our friends Edna Eckstrom Thank you for your continued support of the Long Island String Festival Association. Your generous donation for the “Studio Award” has been awarded to two talented students. Peter A. Tomforde
THE LONG ISLAND VIOLIN SHOP IN THE NEWSA First String Violin MakerBy Jim Merritt Click here to view
Newsday Article in Adobe Acrobat. Savor a good songBy David Person I saw it last year while touring the Huntsville Housing Authority's Cultural Arts Conservatory. Cradling it gently under my chin, I found the old positions. It was a little small for me, but somehow I was able to make my fingers conform to the required movements. Not that I'd ever been a virtuoso, but I had studied the violin for much of grade school and high school. Surely I could conjure up some of the old sound for the pleasure of Jack McReynolds, the conservatory's director. I conjured up something all right. And it was definitely old. It was also out of tune and downright screechy. Stradivarius probably rolled over in his grave, his fingers in his ears, waiting for the pain to go away. Truth be told, there probably never was much to the old sound anyway. I was never big on practicing. Practice required discipline and dedication. It would mean choosing practice over less demanding pleasures like watching my favorite cartoons, reading my Hardy Boys books and racing my Hot Wheels cars. As I grew older, so did the choices. Bach or basketball in Howard's backyard, where the rim was low enough that we could dunk? Stravinsky or ''strikeout,'' that ingenious game of two-man baseball that required only a bat, a rubber baseball and a spray-painted strike zone on the side of a building? Decisions, decisions. Clearly, the screechy sounds emitted by that miniature violin told the story: I usually opted for basketball, strikeout and other diversions. And I lost on both counts. Not only can I no longer play Haydn, I never learned to hit a curve ball. Credit Gary for that. He was a right-hander with a wicked curve ball. Upon release, it seemed to be coming right at my head. At the last second, it would drop down into the lower, outside portion of the strike zone. I'd swing with all my right-handed might, missing every time. Music had its allure, but trying to hit Gary's curve ball or doing a 180-slam-dunk on Howard's rim was just too enticing. My lack of commitment to practice time predicted my future. At some point during high school, my music performance days came mercifully to an end. But now, some 20 years later, I don't regret for one moment the exposure studying the violin gave me. By playing in the string orchestra at the old Shiloh S.D.A. Academy, I learned that teamwork isn't just for the basketball court or baseball diamond, but for the orchestra pit, as well. It takes a team of committed players to make beautiful music, just as it does to win the big game. I also learned about the beauty of diversity: Add the oboe's mournful plea to the piccolo's playful chirps, the clarion call of the brass and the cello's dark warmth, and wonderful sounds can emerge. I learned that music can seep soothingly into the soul's deepest crevices, saving the spirit from a thousand woes. I learned that the right piece of music, like the right woman, could steal my heart. The orchestra introduced me to one of my first musical loves, Johann Pachebel's ''Canon in D,'' a sweet, sad melodic reflection. The first time I heard it, I was swept off my feet. Several weeks ago, several violins were donated to the Cultural Arts Conservatory. Thanks to The Long Island Violin Shop of New York, other children will be able to learn about the joy of being part of a team that creates beautiful music. Maybe one of them will even hear a piece that captivates his heart. I hope so. Savoring a good piece of music has benefits that will outlast besting the neighborhood's best curve-ball pitcher. PRIVACY POLICYOur privacy policy is very simple. Any and all personal information of our clients is scrupulously guarded and will never be shared with any outsiders under any circumstances. If you have any questions or comments about Long Island Violin Shop’s privacy policy, please contact us. |
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