Timbre Folk & Baroque

Timbre Folk & Baroque is a Berkeley acoustic instrument shop offering folk, ethnic, and baroque instruments, along with repairs, restorations, and lessons. The shop carries an unusually wide selection of instruments including ouds, balalaikas, bagpipes, Kazakh Dombras, and Violas da Gamba; repairs and restores a broad range of instruments; and builds moraharpas and instruments in the mandolin family. Owner Mark Walstrom has been building and repairing instruments for 35 years and opened Timbre Folk & Baroque in 2017. Located at 801 Bancroft Way in Berkeley, California, with shipping available on request. Visitors consistently describe the instrument selection as unique and uncommonly broad, and praise Mark for being knowledgeable, unhurried, and honest with customers rather than sales-driven.