I recently got back into violin playing after a 20 year hiatus. One of the biggest issues is that I often find myself wanting to practice, but not being able to for fear of disturbing the neighbors in my apartment complex. I think this violin is going to be a good solution to that problem. I intend to mostly just leave the batteries out and play it without any amplification. In the following video, that's what I'm doing, and I'm cranking down on it as loud as I can. It's audible, but still not very loud. With my other violin, I would definitely be waking up the neighbors, but I think this should be alright if I just sort of take it easy on the bow. I think if I play it with a heavy practice mute, it should be reasonable to practice at any hour.
https://youtu.be/Xl56-oBnIKk
Cons:
The bow is pretty cheap. It's good enough for beginners, but if you are planning to play any rapid staccato, it's going to bounce out of control. A better bow would fix that. I tried the included bow once, and put it away. I can use it for a spare periodically when I send my normal bow in to get re-haired.
The strings are pretty cheap. At some point, I'll probably replace them with Dominants. Amusingly, a set of Dominants costs about $50, so a substantial proportion of the cost of the instrument will then be in strings.
The pegs are very slippery. You can fix that with either some rosin rubbed onto the parts of the peg that contact the peg box, or use some peg compound. (Which I think is just rosin in a liquid form so it's easier to apply.) Without the peg compound, the pegs will slip and the instrument will go out of tune while playing it.
I had to replace one of the fine tuners because it was bent, and not turning easily. I had some spares, so this was easy. Replacement fine tuners are only a few dollars on Amazon.
Also on the same note, when tuning up for the first time, make sure that the fine tuners are properly screwed in. There's a tuning screw, and a mounting screw below that. On mine, the mounting screws were loose, causing the instrument to go out of tune frequently.
Pros:
I get to practice my violin in my apartment at night.
I think it sounds decent, but a bit more metallic than a real violin. Changing the strings will probably fix that.
It more or less feels like a regular violin when you are playing it.
The construction feels solid enough, so hopefully it will last.
The price makes it a great place to start. A real student violin should cost $500-$1000, just to get one that isn't too hard to play and sounds semi-decent.
I would definitely recommend that new players get an experienced violinist to help them set up the instrument for the first time, because although the instrument arrived in a mostly playable condition, I did have to do a lot of little things to make it play well. Nothing was difficult or expensive to correct, but if I hadn't already known how to do the repairs/modifications, it would have been frustrating.
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I had to sell my violin and didn't have much money for a new one. I haven't so much as touched a violin in 6 months and the nightmares and desperation got to be too much for me to handle. This was a great deal within my very limited budget. I was beyond excited to open it today, but the fingerboard is scratched, or rather, scraped. It looks to be just cosmetic, but I was still really disappointed. I'm afraid to send it back though and risk getting one with a defect that affects functionality, so I'm going to see what I can do to fix it. The chin rest also has scratches on it and the pegs were difficult to get positioned. Luckily I still have some peg compound and peg drops, so I used those. Two of the pegs needed peg compound to get them to stick and two needed drops because they were too difficult to turn lol. Of course, I didn't expect to be able to take this violin out of the box and immediately be able to begin playing it, so that stuff's ok. I'm still just mostly focused on the scratch. My apartment's kinda dreary so I try to personalize it as much as possible. I really wanted to put this violin on my stand in my music section, but I don't really want my friends to see it like this - it's kind of embarrassing - and I don't like looking at the scratch either. For now, it's just in my closet :/As for the case, I really like it! My last case didn't have as soft an inside and didn't have this neat little cover that goes over the violin. It also came with dark rosin in a very nice little case with a cloth. Most often, people will insist that I should use light rosin, but I've always preferred dark, so I was surprised to find dark rosin tucked away in the case compartment especially since it's light rosin that's shown in the picture. I usually use d'addario rosin, but this looks to be of good quality, so I'll keep it for now :) I'll definitely be replacing the strings with d'addario strings though. The bow is just a basic $25 bow and works as you would expect such a bow to work. I'll be using it until I have my bow rehaired, but if you can afford it, then I would suggest buying a better bow especially since the bow I got wasn't loosened when I opened it. For the beginner though, it's a perfectly fine bow to use for a few months.I really haven't played much on it, this is just my first impression and I will most definitely update after I've played for a while. I just wanted to post about the fingerboard asap. I'm posting a couple pictures of the scratch and will post pics of the fix if I can fix it.
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