I would like to buy a violin for my wife as her BD gift. Previuosly I asked about different Gliga models. Now i have another question:

Has anyone seen this violin:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=38108&item=3777612830&rd=1

is it beeter or worse than Gliga?

Thanks.

don`t get ebay violins unless ur fond of risk of loss time and money.

O you won`t lose your money with this one, at least, it`s unlikely. He does have reasonable feedback. But there is something very odd. You see, we import violins direct from Germany and I can tell you that the cheapest "highly flamed" one we can get from our supplier would be coming to us as importers at something like double that price for the violin alone. Our very cheapest one (flamed back) we could probably get in for that and make a small profit, but not one with A grade ebony and a highly flamed back.

The bow and case are certainly Chinese anyway, he doesn`t claim otherwise.

My experience of German violins is that they just don`t compete with Chinese or Romanian ones and I am wondering what precisely is going on here. The claim is clearly that the instruments are made in Germany and no buyer has yet claimed otherwise, perhaps he has found some factory that imports Chinese violins in the white and just varnishes them and sets them up. A few more close up pictures would help.

Lzi

yea youre takin a risk buying a violin on ebay

rather than buying an actual German or Romanian you should buy that was built in the likeness of one, in this case you could save a few precious dollars and get a high quality instrument(but dont expect it to be just as good as the real thing remakes are only close). on that note, a friend of mine has a violin model after a from around the baroque period and though its sound post was knocked out of place and just rolls about the violin it still has a strong vibrant sound, sadly she doesnt care for it well and doesnt use it much. a pity isnt it?=-(