“Elderly Instruments started with my dad, Stan Werbin and Sharon McInturff. They were fresh out of grad school living in Ann Arbor and had already been collecting and trading vintage acoustic fretted instruments. Although they started by selling out of an attic, they were pretty good at it, and ended up with enough inventory to open a store. Ann Arbor was fairly saturated with music stores at the time, so they opened the original location in East Lansing. It was just the two of them at first, but grew to 10 people in the first couple of years. They quickly outgrew their small space, so they moved over here to Old Town in the early 80s, and a new era began.
Elderly Instruments: Lillian Werbin
Elderly Instruments: Lillian Werbin
Elderly Instruments: Lillian Werbin
“Elderly Instruments started with my dad, Stan Werbin and Sharon McInturff. They were fresh out of grad school living in Ann Arbor and had already been collecting and trading vintage acoustic fretted instruments. Although they started by selling out of an attic, they were pretty good at it, and ended up with enough inventory to open a store. Ann Arbor was fairly saturated with music stores at the time, so they opened the original location in East Lansing. It was just the two of them at first, but grew to 10 people in the first couple of years. They quickly outgrew their small space, so they moved over here to Old Town in the early 80s, and a new era began.