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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The violin that gave voice to a century of chamber music: the ‘Hauser, Roisman, Steinhardt’ Storioni.
Jason Price begins our Summer Series by highlighting a violin that toplined two of the twentieth-century's most iconic string quartets.
By Jason PriceThe past two years have been exceptional for Private Sales at Tarisio, and we see the summer as an opportunity to highlight a selection of the extraordinary instruments that have recently passed through our hands. To begin, we explore an iconic instrument that has shaped more than a century of chamber music and inspired countless […]
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