Guest, you may not think that 2 weeks is poor turnaround, but why would I order from a business that ships so slowly when I can order strings for the same price from Ifshin Violins and they stick them in the mail the same day? Or from another small shop who ships in a day or two?

Based on what folks are saying here, Elderly is generally kinda slow, and that may be why they don't post any kind of expected timeframe on their site. I've heard enough good stuff about them to consider ordering an instrument or other major purchase from them for the sake of the service or the selection -- it's why I looked them up in the first place -- but not the bread and butter accessories. If they can't handle my order in a timely fashion, they can't. Oh well.

Maybe I should have learned something when I requested a catalog months ago and never got it?