About us
ARTISAN VIOLINS
Artisan Violins and Associates is a local violin and luthier shop, offering high quality handmade instruments, repairs, and rentals.
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Our passion is to make excellent instruments and to help build a musical community that is healthy and strong, bringing richness and color to people living here. As your luthiers we always try to communicate with you every step of the way, to ensure we can meet your individual needs.
ABOUT ARTISAN VIOLINS
Zack Johnson was born one cold, blizzard night in Great Falls, Montana. Two short years later he up and left for Roseburg, Oregon. He felt a strong draw to Irish fiddle tunes and classical violin music at a young age. Making, building and carving a multitude of various projects filled much of his time growing up. Naturally, the first time he picked up a violin he had to make one. So he sought instruction from a local maker, David Dunn, and completed his first violin. That was enough to get him hooked. He then furthered his instruction at The Violin Making School of America, where he graduated from a few years later. After his school adventures, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he worked with Certified Master Violin Maker Stephanie Voss at Voss Violins.
But the call of the woods was too strong to resist. He ran back to the great state of Oregon.
If you can’t find him in the woods, he’s in his shop making the best instruments he can. Aside from his craft and playing music he enjoys hiking, bouldering, dancing and his
family.
ABOUT OUR LUTHIER
Whether you need a major repair or a checkup and cleaning we can take care of your instruments. At the shop we make high-quality handmade instruments. We also have great rentals, excellent repairs, adjustments, a variety of products, and a high quality selection of instruments new and old.