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babylon
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
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January 08 2012 21:22 GMT
#21
If you're new: get any old cheap-ass violin. You can quite literally just buy one off eBay from a trusted buyer and as long as it's not damaged, it'll be fine. (I have a perfectly serviceable viola at home, for instance, that my family got for $100 off eBay for my sibling.) Anyways, $150-200 is a good price-limit for a beginner on a violin, IMO -- though tbh, anything less than $500 doesn't deserve to even be used for firewood, but that doesn't matter since you'll sound like crap anyways. You'll need to buy all the rest of the parts too: the bow (get a cheap wooden one if you can), rosin (cheap), shoulder rest (don't get a spongy one, please), etc. If you're really gung-ho you might want to look into some quality strings too, but honestly, they only pay off on non-crappy violins, which you won't buy for a while.

Once you get a bit more experienced and feel like sticking for it for a few years, you'll want to look at the wood, the shape, the sound/timbre/tone of the actual instrument, which means going into a shop and trying all of them out and possibly renting them for a week to see how they feel. And you'll want to get better strings (mix and match different brands, some brands produce very bright sounds that work well for A & E, but I prefer deeper Ds and Gs, for instance) and a decent bow, which can easily go into the hundreds depending (you'll want to try out balance and weight for bows, lots of people have multiple bows they use depending on whether they want a heavier or lighter sound). Very, very generally, the older the instrument, the better; older instruments tend to have better sound quality, and in the hands of a professional, they sound absolutely heavenly. Even if you only plan to play as a hobby, if you want to play for a longish time, I'd say it'd be a good idea to get a violin upwards of at least $1000. $2000 is when you start getting pretty decent instruments.

Also, if you want to go even a little serious, consider getting a private teacher. Don't get a private teacher for the basics, ofc -- you can teach yourself that -- but once you get to the slightly-less-shitty stage, you'll want to start refining your technique, and the difference between trained and non-trained musicians is like the difference between night and day.
HardMacro
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Canada361 Posts
January 08 2012 21:45 GMT
#22
I echo what other posters are saying in this thread.

I have a (quite wealthy) friend who wanted to learn the violin, so he bought a Laura VIGATO 2008 which cost him around ~$13000 at the time, practiced for 3 weeks, only to never touch the violin again. It's still sitting in his condo somewhere collecting dust mostly likely.

Rent > Practice 1+ years > Buy cheapest acceptable beginner violin > Practice 1+ years > Think about a real purchase.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ saving this here because I use it, don't know how to make it, and don't know it's name
fatfail
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States386 Posts
April 06 2012 22:03 GMT
#23
After reading all these posts, I would recommend the direct opposite. I would recommend you purchase the most expensive violin you can, because the price of violins is continually increasing. Probably 5k-15k is a good price range, expensive enough to appreciate, but not to the point where you have to sell your home. Not only will you be pressured to practice due to the financial cost, but you will also have a great investment and maybe something valuable to pass down to your kids one day.
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