Welcome to the Caswells Strings website. Please join us on a fascinating journey to find out more about us as we go back 50 years with a family business that has served four generations of string players, teachers and performers.
Caswells Strings is one of Britain’s oldest mail-order companies specialising in instruments and accessories for the violin family. With roots extending back over 50 years ago in the South West of England and in Bristol, the Caswell’s instrument shop became a household brand, known throughout the world for its extensive range of fine instruments and for the largest collection of bows in Europe. Throughout all those years a unique catalogue was sent out every year to players countrywide, and to every school in the land.
On the retirement of the previous owner and subsequent to the famous ‘sale of the century’ the name Caswells was adopted to carry the business forward as Britain’s largest supplier of accessories for the violin family, while the catalogue continued to grow, with a mailing list of tens of thousands of both professional and amateur players, teachers and schools.
To make the company more accessible to the whole of Great Britain it was moved ‘lock stock and barrel’ in 2004 to a central location in the heart of England, just 30 minutes north of Oxford, just off M40 Junction 11. The catalogue continued year by year, but with the addition of convenient ordering by email and now (being the 21st century!) a new website to cater for the emerging generation of discerning string players and students.
But the time came once again when we had to move. With our ‘old chapel’ bursting at the seams due, in part, to our extensive carrying stock of cello, viola and violin instruments and cases we have now relocated to the bustling town of Banbury – to a unit in Beaumont Close where we have 7000 square feet of showroom, offices and practice rooms. This has enabled us to hold better stocks of both instruments and cases – and to once again stock double basses.
We invite you to come and visit at Unit 15, or to peruse the website for our extensive range of instruments, from student to advanced; a wide choice of accessories; our extensive bow inventory, and music publications. We welcome any comments and feedback on the website and you can now join us with the online chat.
Opening Hours
The Shop is open Monday to Friday from 8 am – 5 pm. To try instruments or bows, or to look at cases and try shoulder rests/chin rests, we do require an appointment please – you can book this on our website: make an appointment
We are not open on weekends and some bank holidays.
We are more than happy to meet you at the shop on a bank holiday by appointment, please enquire.
Unit 15
Beaumont Close
Banbury
OX16 1TG
(Some satnavs work better with OX16 1TP)
Tel: 01280 707140
Email: sales@caswells-strings.co.uk
