About - Melos Rosin

from cloth to cork.

Melos rosins now comes in a new 100% recyclable coating

Melos Rosin is a family-run company founded in 2003 in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Our vision was to offer pure, high-quality rosins for string instruments, accessible to everyone. A handmade, fresh cake that enhances one’s skills and ultimately broadens their creative process. Over the years, we did our best to live up to this commitment. Now, 20 years later, we proudly look back and make sure to keep on delivering the highest standard.

After several experiments and thorough tests with different strings, instrument bodies, and temperatures, Melos rosins are designed to deliver under any condition. The key to our recipes is the raw material. We use greek pine-tree resin and colophony combined with the finest ingredients, handpicked by local suppliers. These ingredients ensure a fresh, natural, and fine rosin that meets the highest expectation.

Part of our vision is also to remain respectful towards the environmental crisis and stay aware of our footprint. In 2023 we designed an 100% recyclable, eco-friendly, and anti-pollution packaging and minimized our impact.

Melos Rosin is a family-run company founded in 2003 in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Our vision was to offer pure, high-quality rosins for string instruments, accessible to everyone. A handmade, fresh cake that enhances one’s skills and ultimately broadens their creative process. Over the years, we did our best to live up to this commitment. Now, 20 years later, we proudly look back and make sure to keep on delivering the highest standard.

20 years of Melos.

After several experiments and thorough tests with different strings, instrument bodies, and temperatures, Melos rosins are designed to deliver under any condition. The key to our recipes is the raw material. We use Greek pine-tree resin and colophony combined with the finest ingredients, handpicked by local suppliers. These ingredients ensure a fresh, natural, and fine rosin that meets the highest expectation.

Part of our vision is also to remain respectful towards the environmental crisis and stay aware of our footprint. In 2023 we designed an 100% recyclable, eco-friendly, and anti-pollution packaging and minimized our impact.

what is special about these cakes?

The founder of Melos Rosin, Christos Sykiotis, was born in Adelaide, Australia and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece, where he studied cello. Later he advanced his studies in Germany, obtaining a cello degree in Fachakademie fuer Musik in Augsburg, under the supervision of the cello professor Markus Wagner. Since 1993 he is based in Thessaloniki with his family. He is now composing temporary music for ensembles, chamber orchestras, dance and theatre performances.
In 1988, while studying in Germany, he made his first rosin.

"I really appreciate a well-crafted musical instrument. My relationship with mine is deep and strong. We connect in an "existential" way which cannot really understand or explain, but my extraordinary joy while serving its purpose is uncanny. At some point, I realized that the quality of my sound is highly dependent on the mean between the bow hair and the strings. That's what I was missing. It was only then I realized that musicians who have mastered their technique, are compromising their skills if they are not using high quality rosin. And that is what Melos Rosin is about."

at the heart of Melos.