Around the Store/Links

In addition to bows, you can shop at Mt. Airy Violins & Bows for CDs of some of the area’s best string instrumentalists, music including oldtime, Irish and Classical Music and Jazz and Swing. You’ll also find a number of accessories for your instrument.

In the future, we’ll be adding instructional videos, books of tunes, music art and posters and other gifts. Our goal is to not only be a store for the serious musician, but a Northwest Philadelphia community center offering ways to inspire your life musically. We will also be presenting and sponsoring concerts, so check back with us often.

CDs of Area Musicians ($15 each)

Oldtime Music

Rafe Stefanini, Bluegrass Meadows Solo fiddle music

The Rockinghams, Shout Lulu R. Stefanini, fiddle; B. Smith, guitar; J. Herrman, banjo; M. McIntosh, bass

Beverly Smith and Carl Jones, Moving Lightly Through This World B. Smith, guitar, vocals, fiddle; C. Jones Southern music duets featuring vocal harmonies

The Brandywine Mountain Music Convention A Twenty Year Legacy of Old Time Music

Clare Milliner & Walt Koken, Just Tunes C. Milliner, fiddle; W. Koken, banjo

Irish Music

Irish Fiddlers, Toss the Fiddles – The Philadelphia Ceili Group’s 27th Annual Festival of Irish  Music and Dance including John Brennan, Brendan Callahan, Liz Carroll, Kevin Doherty,  Dezi Donelly, etc.

Ceol Mor, Ceol Mor or Big Music M. Copeland, flute, whistle; B. Bender, guitar, bass; M. Gittelman, fiddle, vocal; T. Gittelman,  mandolin, bouzouki, bodhran

Classical Music

Jeffrey Solow & Doris Stevenson, Felix Mendelssohn, Complete Music for Cello and Piano

Jazz and Swing

Dylan Taylor & Kelly Meashey, Songs of Living Bass with Solo Voice

Tyrone Brown String Sextet, Song of the Sun $10

Beats Walkin’, Bop-a-billy Swing! J. Cohen pedal steel, vocal; W. Bourne, vocal, guitar; B. Lewis, bass, vocal; C. Lindsay, drums, vocal

Jim Cohen, Four to the Bar  J. Cohen, pedal steel, guitar, vocal; D. Kleiman, keyboards; M. Landan, bass; N. Kidman, percussion

Accessories

Discounted strings, rosins, cases, shoulder rests, tuners, metronomes, manuscript paper, etc.
are available for all your music needs. If we don’t have exactly what you want, special orders
(also discounted) can be filled in 2 days.

Concerts

This section is under construction

Links

Information about Pernambucco wood - an interesting paper on pernambuco, the wood used
for bowmaking. On Arcos Brasil web site.

Violin Society of America

David VanZandt’s list of makers

American Federation of Violin and Bowmakers

Stebgo Metals, Inc. -- Precious metal specialists

Vintage Instruments-- Located in Center City Philadelphia, Vintage Instruments is America’s largest and most eclectic shop specializing in old and antique acoustic musical instruments. Elizabeth makes and repairs bows for Vintage.

Rafe Stefanini -- An Elizabeth Vander Veer Shaak customer

Contact Information:
Mt. Airy Violins & Bows
Elizabeth Vander Veer Shaak, Bowmaker and Proprietor
6665 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19119
215-438-9031
E-mail: bowmaker@violinsandbows.us

Directions

Click on the link below and get directions to our shop on mapquest. We look forward to meeting
and serving you.

General vicinity; street level (You can input your origination address in the fields under the map.
Desitination address is already entered). Clicking on the zoom levels on the right of the map will
give you different maps of the shop’s location in relation to the Mt. Airy neighborhood,
Mt. Airy/Chestnut Hill, outlining communities and the suburbs.

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