Buying your first violin can be quite an adventure nowadays. Only a few years ago, your only option for procuring a violin was your local music store, where you could easily walk in, and even easier buy whatever the sales person told you it was the best choice for you. Truth is that we all [...]
As we all know, the traditional and the best combination of woods for violin making, and that has been used for centuries, is maple (preferably flamed) and resonance spruce. Various violin makers have made quite a few experiments with different other species of wood. They used oak, walnut, willow, and poplar to replace the maple. [...]
In this section of our website we will talk about violin stores and dealers, online violin sales, violin rentals, and a few important things that should be known before buying a violin. Let’s start at the beginning and try to answer to following question: how does a violin get from a luthier’s workshop into our [...]