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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A brief history of violin making in New York City
This year, New York City celebrates its quadricentennial. To honor the importance of this city in the Tarisio story, we put together a short history of violin making in the Empire City. We ♥️ NY.
New York has always attracted the best and the brightest. But it also attracts its fair share of troublemakers so it comes as no surprise to learn that New York’s first documented violin maker was a convicted felon who died in a botched robbery attempt. Geoffrey Stafford came to America from England around 1690 and […]
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