On display in the window of Samuel Kolstein & Son, the Manhattan showroom of a Long Island-based business that repairs and restores violins, violas, cellos and basses.
Samuel Kolstein was born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents in the Lower East Side in 1915. He was accepted to Juilliard as a piano major, and chose bass as a second choice instrument. He came to become a renowned luthier and bowmaker, and established his first shop on 56th St and 6th Ave. in 1943. His son, Barrie, joined the shop in 1971 and eventually succeeded his father, and in 2918 passed the business on to his mentee, Manny Alvarez, another immigrant son.
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