Hi
my cousin is thinking about buying a violin, but he has no clue as to what any good brands are could anyone give their opinion
thanks

Any violin that is NOT machine made is good. Used violins are good also. The older an instrument is, the better it sounds.

STRATIVARIUS

You mean Antonius Stradivarius, ha you can get a copy of one maybe.

Lol, i think he would love a strativarius but its a little over his price range

Yes, by a few hundred thousand dollars.

I followed your advice and looked on ebay, antique violins, and this is one of the auctons that came up. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2548277285&category=623#ShippingPayment
can anyone give me info about this. thanks

It`s a Ukelin and it has 16 strings. It also uses a bow a bow.

http://www.angelfire.com/country/fiddlin/images/bsstd.jpg



Go on this website below, you can actually hear this Ukelin being played.

http://www.angelfire.com/country/fiddlin/clips.html

It is called,
Columbus Stockade Blues

Interesting!

I disagree with Sean. Although it is true that any violin when aged is better than it was when new, the fact that it is old alone does not make it good. Has anyone here ever come across an old Chinese violin that sounds good? I`ve come across plenty of old German and Czech ones that sound worse than good new violins. Of course everything is complicated by the fact that a good set up and different strings can make all the difference in the world ....

We sell violins but since I`m in the UK, I`m not likely to make a sale to you so i guess i can claim to be relatively unbiased here: we have sold used ones and new ones, none have equalled let alone surpassed a Gliga Gama for tone. And I am including some professionally set up late nineteenth century instruments in that comparison, including one master made signed one (Hermann Dolling Jr.)

But of course tone is a terribly personal thing.

I do have a viola that I prefer to a Gliga Gama but it is a German master made one, signed (Reinhold Schnabl) and dating from 1978 so well played in. It cost me £1200 back in 1984, is professionally set up, and at today`s prices would go for £2000 - £4000 depending on cosmetic condition. New, well, I guess £6000 plus ... 10 to 15 times the price of a Gama. I rest my case .....

Liz

Ok thanks for the info

This is for Kaleidoscope. There is a strativarius violin on ebay now
( 9-9-03)and it will be on until
(9-13-03). They claim it to be from the 1800`s.

Sean, you seem to know more than I do, so can you tell me where to go for an appraisal of my father`s violin?
Thanks

Val,

It will be a copy obviously. What`s the ebay number? 18th century you say??

Liz

O sorry, 19th century, whoops!

Does anyone know what a ball park figure would be on a 1713 Strativarius would be???