SPECIAL NOTICE:  THE SHOP WILL BE CLOSED ON SATURDAY JULY 4.  HAVE A SAFE HOLIDAY.

Dennis McCarten  has been making and repairing instruments since the early 1990's. This was a natural evolution from his lifelong love of wood and woodworking and his immersion in Irish traditional music.  

Mr. McCarten is a graduate of the Violin Making and Repair program of the North Bennet Street School. This is one of only three full time violin making programs in the United States.           

Since 2006, he has operated his own full-service stringed instrument shop in Pawtucket where he builds, rents, repairs and services violins, violas and cellos.