About

Animato Violins has emerged as a source of very-good-value-for-money stringed instruments. The founding director is Dietrich Lasa.
Ngok Woon joined Dietrich as director to facilitate and maintain the quality of our unique instruments at 'the source'. 

N. Woon is a musician who speaks Asian languages. He works in close collaboration with our workshops in China where he has sourced the best instruments, exclusively available to Animato's customers. These instruments are then quality controlled in our premises with strictest guidelines. The sound quality is top priority. It has to meet our high standards, even for relatively inexpensive outfits.

Born in Germany, D. Lasa joined the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and immigrated later to Australia as a member of the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Orchestra in Brisbane. He started his violinshop in 1996 with the ambition to source the most beautiful sounding violins at a very reasonable price. Animato has developed into the largest string instrument specialist in the Southern Hemisphere with thousands of happy customers all over the world.

Below is our shop front at night time with the shutters down. Our store and dispatch centre consists of four adjacent shops close to the city centre of Brisbane, Australia.