Everything For The Violin
“Just opposite Ealing Common tube station, on the Uxbridge Road, You can find Ealing Strings  –  one of the largest workshops in Europe dedicated to high class making and restoration of violins, violas, 'cellos and bows.
Inside the Ealing Strings shop, on the corner of Fordhook Avenue, you enter a world steeped in traditions of a craft dating back to Medieval times
  –  the world of Stradivari, and of the Guarneri family.
Ealing Strings specialise in such instruments, and through their extensive workshop facilities, are able to offer a good selection of instruments and bows, ranging from those suitable for the serious student up to and including, the fine Cremonese instruments as well as English and French bows.
Craftsmen at Ealing Strings are a blend of talented school leavers and experienced craftsmen who have come from colleges and workshops throughout Europe.  Most are skilled violin or bow-makers as well as restorers.
Almost any damage to an instrument from the violin family can be restored at Ealing Strings, although the player will also be advised as to whether the work in question would be commercially viable.  Bow rehairs are done as a 'same day' service, or even on a while you wait basis if requested. 
Both shop and workshop are open six days a week, Monday to Saturday from 9:15 am till 6:00 pm, with no lunchtime closing.  Insurance valuations, and comprehensive advice on caring for your instrument, are available for player, student and enthusiast alike –  normally without charge.
Over one hundred titles specialising in the violin family are stocked in the Ealing Strings' book section, and indeed Ealing Strings are publishers themselves in this field.  
Ealing strings has issued seven fine- art quality titles over the last twenty years in both library and limited- edition de-luxe formats.
Subjects range from Paganini, the devilish early nineteenth century violin virtuoso, to William Retford, a local bowmaker at what were once the Hill workshops in Hanwell,  was hugely influential in the  development of what became known as the world famous "Hill Bow".
Three of the four founding directors of Ealing Strings, were themselves ex-Hill, and it is the ongoing commitment of everyone at Ealing Strings to continue those earlier traditions of craftmenship and service.