Melos high quality handmade rosin for violin, cello & bass.

MELOS rosin owned and run by Christos Sykiotis, has been established since 2002. Christos previously worked as a freelance cellist and teacher for ten years, playing with a number of both well known and less well known orchestras and ensembles. He was born in Adelaide in Australia and raised in Thessaloniki in Greece. His father Georgre was born in Chalkidiki, a beautiful place in North Greece, full of pine trees. Christos spent his childhood summers running among those trees. In the following years he started the cello studies in Greece,advanced his studies in Germany and was awarded his cello-degree in Fachakademie fuer Musik in Augsburg, Germany by the cello professor Markus Wagner. Since 1993 he has lived in Thessaloniki with his family.

In 1988 during his studies in Germany Christos started making rosin. He was familiar with the pine tree resin of his homeland. After a lot of experiments with the high quality pine tree resin and colophony of Chalkidiki as a basis together with other pure ingredients, he finalised the recipe for the cello rosin . Testing with different strings, instruments and temperatures, helped to produce fantastic results for the violin and bass rosin too. As a musician Christos knew exactly how much and how rosin can "bite" the strings of an instrument