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At The Violin Studio we support string players from the ground up. Originally we only used to stock instruments above $600(for violins), but due to demand for beginners I decided to sift through the lower end instruments available in Australia to find some good quality ones.
If you are looking for a large variety of instruments regardless of quality, this is not the place to look. All instruments available here have been thoroughly researched and tested by a professional violinmaker as well as professional string players and teachers. I believe our instruments to be the best quality instruments available in Australia in their respective price classes. We get a lot of positive feedback from string teachers.
If you order an instrument and are not happy with it, you can send it back within a fortnight and we will fully refund you for the instrument, so you can't really loose.
At The Violin Studio we make sure that absolutely every instrument that is sold is fully set up and carefully checked before it leaves the shop. I often come across Instruments sold through shops that need to have up to $250 of work done just to be playable!! That is a risk not worth taking. Our instruments may cost slightly more than at other music shops, but you get hundreds of dollars extra value and the assurance that each instrument has been set up, played and fully inspected by a fully trained violinmaker. (Click here to check the comparison)
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Vivace Violin Quality instruments have finally cracked the $500 barrier!! Up to now anything below $500 could only be described as a toy. Now there is the Garibaldi Vivace violin. It is made from quality timbers and produces a beautiful sonorous sound usually associated with violins of much greater value. At the low price of $495 it is well within range for school violin students and beginners. It is a known fact that cheap violins have in the past and still are diminishing the sound quality of school and youth orchestras as well as making playing no fun for young players. Now playing can be fun without the huge outlay. With its fully professional set up, the Vivace Violin is an easy instrument to play and a wonderful instrument to listen to. You also get a quality bow a lightweight shaped violin case with pocket for music and rosin, so you can start playing straight away.
Vivace violins with The Violin Studio* set up Tonica strings, case and bow |
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Enrico Student Extra Instrument With professional The Violin Studio* set up This is a great instrument to learn on. The Enrico Student Extra has been set up to play like a professional instrument (at The Violin Studio) which really makes learning a lot easier. It is difficult enough to learn to play let alone on an instrument with a factory set up (virtually unplayable) which is the case at most shops in Australia. I truly believe that musicians at any level deserve to and need to play on well set up instruments if they want to get ahead. The Enrico Student Extra is made from traditional timbers with real purfling (inlay) and ebony fingerboard, a fine tuning tailpiece and hardwood pegs and chinrest.
Violin: $390 AU Viola: $480 AU
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Intermediate Instruments Professional Instruments
Plane the Fingerboard to a professional standard. This means that you will have a fingerboard that has the same shape as that of most instruments that you will hear in concert halls around the world
I will fit a professional quality French bridge crafted by a master violin maker with specialized acoustic knowledge to make the instrument sound the best that it can.
Fit a professional quality soundpost to really bring out the rich tonal qualities. There is a reason that in many languages the soundpost is called the “Soul”. It takes a master to fit and move the soundpost into the right position to really make the instrument sing.
I always fit the Instruments with great quality strings for that rich sound.
Each peg is carefully refitted to make sure that if is very easy to tune the instrument using the pegs.
The tailpiece is checked and refitted to make sure it is in the best acoustical position
I check and recheck the string height and spacing to make sure it is absolutely perfect. It is only easy to play the violin when the string height is absolutely right.
I always play each instrument and adjust it until I’m so happy with it that I want to keep the violin myself. I always try out the instruments far too long, because they are so much fun to play. This way you can be sure that when your instrument leaves my workshop, everything about it is perfect.