About

Animato has emerged as a source of very-good-value-for-money stringed instruments. The founding director is Dietrich Lasa.

Born in Germany, Dietrich 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.

Animato works in close collaboration with our specialist suppliers in China where it has sourced the best instruments, exclusively available to Animato's customers. These instruments are then quality controlled in our premises with strictest guidelines.

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