St. Mary’s Industrial Mart, the pride of Cochin City claims but just an obscure birth in 1932. The phenomenal growth of this shop attached with a workshop in the prestigious street, Broadway has a background suffused with the blood of music itself. Neither the Arion lute nor the Apollo’s lyre has come into the shop. But the touch of a divine melody seemed to flow through its strings when I. X. Stephen gave the musical instruments a final touch. Stelsie instruments, with their history of more than half a century, brought in a paradigm shift in stringed musical instruments. Violin and guitar with his characteristic touch are Stephen’s forte. Stephen almost inherited from his father I. B. Xavier the gift of music. Xavier had a very short span of life during which he excelled in the art of musical tones. An adept at tuning musical instruments, I. B. Xavier received the first public recognition of his talents from the then European Rector.