The Cozio Archive
Welcome to Cozio, the world’s largest reference resource for buyers, sellers and connoisseurs of fine stringed instruments and bows.
Founded in 2003 as a public registry of iconography, provenance and pricing information for historical stringed instruments, Cozio encompasses over 36,000 individual instruments and bows by over 3,500 makers. It is also the most comprehensive online source for maker biographies and provenance information, and contains over 57,000 historical auction prices.
Although most of Cozio is available to the public by subscription, it also contains photographs, documents and records of instruments and bows that are accessible only by request. If you would like information about any item that is not publicly available, please contact us.
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Remembering Eugene Sârbu
Who was Eugene Sârbu? For years he was known in London as a mysterious figure who attended all the auctions and surprised everyone by playing marvelously when trying out violins. Some older musicians also had a faint memory of him winning several major competitions and appearing on BBC Radio 3.
By Eric WenWhat many people may not have known is that although Eugene Sârbu lived in London for close to fifty years, he began his career in the United States in the 1970s. And that’s where I first met him. My first memory of Eugene dates back to the summer of 1971 when we were both students […]
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