A NEWS UPDATE TO CUSTOMERS
Hello,
This is Alfred's daughter Dixie, and it is with great sadness that I type this. Yesterday morning (9/26/18) we said goodbye to him. His battle with cancer finally ended. He held his head high and kept his optimism until pretty much the end.

*********************************IMPORTANT UPDATE AS OF 11-28-18***********************************************
*If you are a customer and have any instruments or other belongings at the shop,  please call Amy and schedule a time to pick your items up as soon as possible. We would like everyone to have picked everything up before January 2019. At that time, anything left will probably be sold. You can also email me at dixischatz@hotmail.com, but Amy is the one you will need to coordinate picking things up with.

This website will be closing down in January 2019 as well.

Thank you very much to all the customers Papa has had over the years. 

​                                                                       Dixie Jarman
In 1982 Alfred Michels came to the mountains of North Carolina from Germany, where he had recently completed an apprenticeship with with the luthier Rudolf Elbin of Bonn, Germany.  He soon established Solitude Violin Shop, providing the kind of quality service one might expect in a large city on his small farm in Creston, NC.
Alfred's horses, the shop is the white building on the left.
An unusual scroll for a customer who wanted something extra.