Good brands for Violins? Any Recomendations?

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I am a young musician, I can read sheet music perfectly, great sight reader, I would consider myself intermediate on saxophone, and guitar and am a musical person in general, i do a lot of playing by ear. I am hoping to learn how to play the violin in the next couple of months and need to buy a violin. Since I don’t plan on playing for a career, it doesn’t have to be fancy, but i might consider auditioning for a college or community orchestra if I take to it well, so i would like it to be of semi good quality. I know enough about guitars that you get what you pay for when it comes to string Instruments, but I would really like a cheaper brand, that still sounds decent. Any suggestions? any sites? any help is appreciated!

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  • You need to get yourself to a violin shop where they sell quality beginner and step up instruments. You can’t base a decision on brand name since no two violins of the same brand/model will sound the same. Since you already have a musical ear, many of the beginner instruments out there will just sound awful. You will probably end up needing to get something in the $450-600 range or it will just be hard to listen to. Anything under around $300 is just not worth purchasing.

  • You can’t really buy a violin by brand because even violins from the same brand sound different.

    I would suggest that you start by hiring a violin until you can play well enough to know what you want from a violin.

    Violins are best bought from a specialist string instrument shop, not from a general music shop that sells saxophones, clarinets , guitars, keyboards etc but one that only sells violins, violas cello and double basses.

  • Go to a string dealer, not a guitar or general music store, and see what they have in your price range. There is no such thing as a cheap violin with good sound. Good beginner violins cost around $400-600, violins suitable for playing in a college or community orchestra cost a few thousand. Marginally acceptable beginner violins that won’t fall apart in the first year but sound pretty bad cost around $200-300.

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