Services

Design and Manufacture

           Susato Brand Instruments such as Pennywhistles, Tabor-Pipes, Txistu,

           Pentatonic & Wide-Bore Renaissance Style Recorders, ABS and Rosewood

           Ocarinas, ABS & Cow-Horn Gemshorns, Crumhorns, ABS & Rosewood Kelhorns,

           Double Reeds, Thumbrests, Minnesinger Hurdy-Gurdies, as well as all Susato

           Press Editions are designed and manufactured in our Brasstown North Carolina 

           Workshops.

Custom Instrument Making

Geigenbaumeister (Master Violin Maker) George Kelischek has 58+ years experience in instrument making. A short list of the custom instruments made in Brasstown includes: Violins, Violas, Violas d' Amore, Violas da Gamba, Lutes, Hurdy-Gurdies, Rebecs, Vielles and Early Guitars. Please visit the media gallery to see some of the beautiful instruments made in Brasstown over the years. Call us and we'll begin a dialog about your new instrument, an instrument that could be treasured by you and your family for generations!

Instrument Repairs

We have the experience and skill that are critical to getting your instrument back into playable condition. Our rates are very reasonable as we have low overhead costs compared to large cities. Please call to discuss your repair.

Music Typesetting

Through our in-house publishing business, Susato Press, we publish instruction books and music for many different instruments. Our list of editions is steadly expanding. We use advanced MakeMusic (Finale) and Adobe software tools on Macintosh OS X hardware for all our production needs, which keeps our quality and efficiency at very high levels.

• Custom typesetting of vocal & instrumental compositions and arrangements.
• Transpositions, scores, parts, lyrics are all supported.
• Design and layout of complete editions using the latest electronic publishing tools.
• Turn-key production from manuscript to press.