Instrument rental in New York City
We rent to New York students, schools, and visiting performers, and we deliver. Most of our New York families never visit an address at all: the instrument arrives at the school or at your door, set up and ready to play.
For New York schools and families
A large share of our work is with New York schools, including private school music programs where we supply the whole program: instruments set up the way the director wants them, delivered to the school, swapped as students grow, and repaired on a regular visit rather than by post.
For families renting on their own, the school-year rental runs 10 months, September to June, and the instrument comes to you. Start a rental or ask about a program at your school.
For musicians visiting the city
If you are flying in to perform, you do not have to put your instrument in a cargo hold or buy it a seat. We deliver concert-quality string and band instruments to hotels, rehearsal spaces, and venues across Manhattan, and a member of our team brings it, checks it with you, and adjusts it if it is not right.
Instruments from our shop have gone to members of the Los Angeles Youth Orchestra and the American High School Honors Orchestra for performances at Carnegie Hall, to the Stuttgart Youth Orchestra visiting from Germany, and to members of the Prague Chamber Orchestra playing at Merkin Concert Hall. Soloists have flown in from as far as the Netherlands and Malaysia and had an instrument waiting.
Tell us what you need and when, and you will usually have a quote within one business day.
Our New York address
120 Riverside Boulevard, New York, NY 10069
By appointment
Phone: (203) 957-8300
The Upper West Side location is for pickups, drop-offs, and appointments rather than browsing. The full stock, the repair bench, and the fitting wall are at our Norwalk shop, about an hour away. See the Norwalk shop.
Tell us what you need in New York.
School-year rentals delivered, short-term instruments to your hotel or venue, and a real person on the phone either way.