Various Types of Violins

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Hi! I’m J-Adam Smith with Fiddle Team USA and Violin from the Heart. Today’s topic with Expert Village is going to be about the violins and how to choose the right one. I’m going to show you a nicer violin, more professional level instrument. I’m going to be showing you a beginner instrument. A restored instrument or an instrument that you would be looking into restoring, and also a little bit on electric violins. What you just heard me playing on, is on a professional violin. A professional violin is very, very important, of course, for those students who are really moving forward and want something that is really going to be showing off their sound and their abilities. When buying an instrument, make sure that you are thinking about price. Price is very, very important. Ultimately, you want to spend as much money as you can when you know that this is something that you want to make your best friend and make it something that you want to be doing in the rest of your life. Think about what you are putting into it because ultimately, you are buying the sound; you are buying the heart of the instrument. Important instruments, when you are sorting out. They all should be MENC certified. MENC is a very important thing that goes around the country, around the world, as being renounced best, being able to be playable, highly playable and easy to play. Easy play is the very important thing with violins. You have to make it as easy as possible because if it’s not easy, ultimately, you will want to stop. You won’t want to play it anymore. Here is a student grade violin. Student grade violins can cost you anywhere between $100 to $300 area. I wouldn’t spend too much more than $300 or $400 for student violin nowadays, they are getting the price down and everything. Also, make sure that the violin does have a MENC. Just because it’s cheap, the student violin does not mean that you can still play on it. You want to make sure it works okay. It has a sprayed on varnish. It’s a solid instrument; make sure it has got good seams on its side. Make sure that it looks nice and it is light. You don’t want it to be heavy and bulky. Another thing to look at is going to be older antique instruments. Lot of us wants to get those EBay specials but be very, very careful. Seams can be broken on them and things can be hidden. If I just showed you the top of this violin and did not turn it over, then you would never notice there is a crack on the back. You also want to look to make sure what kind of stuffs involved in it. Ultimately, you do need to have someone as a professional to help you out. Make friends with the violin shop; get them to look at the instruments for you before you put a lot of money into them. If you get them cheap then you’re not loosing very much. If you spend a lot of money on the bad instrument, you lose a lot. Then lastly, something that is new nowadays is the electric violin. I love the electric violin because it can go with you anywhere. It’s smaller; it has capabilities to be amplified and even to store it and create some different sounds and new sounds that have never been done. Trust me, Mozart probably wouldn’t be flipping if he have heard some of the sounds that we can do on these violins. Jimmy Hendricks can be done on the violin. But this is another violin. Catch me later on another segment, we will be talking little bit more in depth about the electric violins and kind of what we are going to be doing with it and show you what it can do.

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