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THAT FIRST
VIOLIN
Good and even great instruments are easy to find and surprisingly affordable.
With tips on getting what you want, without hassles.
By Heather K. Scott
As a Strings reader you are probably a teacher or stringed-instrument advocate. We encourage you to pass along this article to your students and to parents whose children are in the market for their first student violin. Or you may be an adult starting to play the violin in your free time. Either way, this listing of violin outfits, along with the help of a knowledgeable shop owner, will ensure finding a first violin that best fits your needs or those of your child or student. All the outfits under reviewÂeach includes violin, bow, and caseÂhave qualities we feel confident recommending to the early student. After surveying more than 40 international stringed-instrument dealers, musicians, and industry professionals, we used their suggestions, and our own resources, to identify readily available outfits priced under $1,500. With the help of Bobbi Nikles, a private violin teacher, and Phoebe Dong and Robert Ness, public school string teachers, as well as our editorial colleagues Teja Gerken, Paul Kotapish, and Jessamyn Reeves-Brown, we evaluated each outfit. | |
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