Viola Recommendations 

Ready to play viola?

Here’s what you’ll need to get started!

New students need:

• We recommend renting an instrument from the Baroque Violin Shop

• Sponge

• Bow grip

• Music stand

• Tuner

You may also want

• String Swing wall hanger

• Center-Sitting Chin Rest

Books in order

I can Read Music, Volume 1 by Joanne Martin

Scale System (for Viola) by Carl Flesch

42 Studies - Viola by Rudolphe Kreutzer

Six Cello Suites, S. 1007-1012 by J.S. Bach

Suzuki Viola School, Volume 1

School of Violin Technics, Op. 1, Book 1 by Henry Schradieck