Can I buy a $1000 violin? How does it work?

Buy Beginner Violin

If you're thinking of starting violin lessons, and you're not sure if you'll be able to stick with it, this is the right price to buy for starters. If you are thinking about how to practice the violin well, it is recommended to buy a better one within your ability.

Is a $1000 price point violin a machine violin or a handmade violin?

Violins can be categorized into machine (or factory) and handmade violins according to a more rudimentary classification. Given that the average person has limited knowledge of unfamiliar territory, he or she probably acquires information to buy on an orange platform or the like, or purchases a display cabinet violin when taking the child to a violin shop for lessons.

Now when looking at some information, there are those most purchased recommendations, or after intelligent layout on the first page, click on it, it seems that the price is okay, a few hundred dollars of violins are many options, these are probable machine violins.

Machine Violin

Machine instruments are factory formed into molds with molds, and the wood is probably pressed out with press boards, so obviously the sound quality can be as good as it can be.

The wood board may not have a pattern, painted on a line of wood grain, dress up a better look. The left hand presses the strings of the fingerboard, the normal situation is ebony, but the machine piano in order to reduce the cost, usually wood painted black, used for a long time, after the paint faded, revealing the wood color.

Many people buy to hand are this as a start, the violin in addition to its own piano and some accessories, such as "the heart of the piano", that is, the code, the level of production is too low, I was deeply afflicted by it, no matter how to practice when playing the violin, will be pulled to the other strings. My teacher said that the saddles are not well separated, so he separated some of them for me.

As for those handmade instruments that say $1000, they are probably machined a bit and hand polished and assembled. You'd be lucky to get one.

handmade violin

Generally speaking, the traditional sense of the real handmade piano, is the kind of luthier by the luthier himself, the price by the luthier's production level, fame, the use of the fiddle material decided by the title of the 1000 is impossible to buy.

Nowadays, there is also a trend of old instruments, saying that an age-old instrument will have the flavor of the years and its own personality. If the instrument is not good, why would you go through the trouble of keeping it for so long? Generally these instruments are also very expensive.

There are also those that specialize in antique fiddles, reproducing modern instruments according to some classic fiddle models, and those that have an aged style.

How's it going?

What's the saying, if I had never seen the light I could have endured the darkness. When I used a machine piano it was also painful, the main pain being the steel strings that came with it. The fingers on my left hand hurt from pressing them, and in less than three days I could get calluses, thick sections of them. Here's a tip, if you buy a violin and don't know what kind of string it is. Get a more neutral nylon string to replace it and feel the sound of the violin itself.

Within the range, buy the better piano you perceive, if there is a problem with the assembly to solve the problem of accessories in time, also can be used for a long, long time, wait until the practice to a better time, and then clear what kind of sound you like, or find a professional some of my friends teachers to go to the fiddle studio to accompany themselves to pick their favorite sound, so it is also very good.

Overall, you get what you pay for, and when practicing recently, I realized that the bow is also very important, and everyone likes different bows, so the bow that is easy to pick up and can be used as an extension of the arm is the right one for you.

When the bow and the instrument are well matched, practicing is much happier.