There is a small bag at its front that you can put your items inside. Brand new violin and accessories are included inside this package. The bow and other accessories inside the csae are all brand new and never used. This brand nwe violin features. Inlaid purfling design on violin (not painted). Back-pack lightweight sturdy carrying case. (easy carry to school or orchestra). 4 fine tuners for 4 steel strings. Learn to play violin online at anytime anywhere! Suitable for adult, children or students. Call 1-510-8575952 for details about this violin. A perfect set for the beginning student. This beautiful violin boasts tonal properties in excellent quality. (purfling is carved and inlaid, but not drawn like lesser quality brands). Violin is shop adjsuted by hand. Violin is inspected & setup for playability. Hand graduated of the ivolin top and back. Alloy tailpiece with 4 fine tuners. When the violin maker starts preparing to make an instrument, he must first of all consider his choice of materials and create a strategy of design. The rough flitches of wood used for the front and back plates are glued together with joints that must last perhaps for hundreds of years. To shape the outline of the thin strips of maple called the ribs, a mould is made hwich is later removed from the structure. The front and back plates must be worked fairly thin to be able to resonate easily, but because they must also support a lot of tension, they are shaped into a very exact arching.Violin berkeley 44 34 12 14 18 116 132 violin fiddle the edges of the thin plates are then reinforced by the inlaying of the purfling which also serves the purpose of adding visual style. Once the outside arching fo the plates has been shaped, the hollowing of the inside can begin. The graduation of the plates to the proper thickness along with the cutting of teh sound holes and fitting and glueing the bassbar are really the most difficult aspects of violin making. No two pieces of owod have the same properties and must therefore be worked differently every time. The carving of a scroll on the end of the neck of as stringed instrument has a long tradition and probably has symbolic archetypal significance. After the finished instrument has been coated in a glorious viel of tinted varnish, it can be adjusted tonally by means of the sound post and other aspects of the final fitting up. Here are soem very useful measurements of violin family instruments. Body length 285 320 335 345 356. 133 145 156 162 168. Back 13,2 13,7 14,1 14,3 14,5. Front 13,7 14,3 14,9 15,2 15,5. Center at sound post 3,2 3,5 3,9 4,1 4,3. Purfling thickenss 1,1 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,3. Length 62 68 71 73 75. Soundpost thickness 4 4,5 5 5,5 6. String length 267 287 307 317 327. Then use the following chart to determine which size best suits yourself. The fitting up of the instrument involves the fitting of the sound post, fitting of the bridge, fitting and shaping of the fingerboard, nut and saddle, and the shaping and fitting of the pegs. As each sound post will have to be treated as a unique piece for every instrument and player, so does the bridge have to be fitted and cut to match the musicians personal tastes and the behaviour of the body of the instrument. It is up to the skill of the maker to determine the ideal shape, cut and weight of the bridge for each instrument. A violin is properly made to last for a very long time. It is really quite amazing that some of the earliest works of the master violin makers of brescia, italy dating from the early 16th century, are still being used by professional musicians, despite their relatively fragile build. Of course an instrument’s lief span and healthy condition is directly related to the care taken by it’s owners to preserve it. As well as the critical effects of atmospheric changes, various other dangres such as shocks and blows threaten an instrument’s health constantly. The owner of a violin can help preserve their instrument by proper cleaning, monitoring cracks and keeping an eye on the general setup. Well fitting pegs induce less wear on the original wood of the pegbox and conscientious owners will periodically check on the state of the bridge, tailpiece, saddles and fingerboard. Perhaps most important though, is conuslting a skilled violin maker. One of the things that allows an instrument to sound with maximum efficiency and quality is the way in which it is set up. Other aspects of the set-up include, the shape and height of the saddle and nut, distance between strings and choice of strings. The aspects of the set-up which have a direct and dramatic influence on the sound and playability of the instrument are the cut of the bridge the position tightness and fit of the sound post, the string height above the fingerboard and the choice and/or condition of the strings. I also carry violins in 1/8, 1/10, 1/32, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 4/4 sizes. For more inofrmation about this violin, please call toll-free. Brand nwe violin in case. I hope you will like my violin. I look forward to serving you. View all items in my sdgallery. H cadrer el paso, tx. I have begun to play your new violin and it is very nice, so i would like another one as well. It is well set up and plays easily. Thank you for giving em such a lovely instrument to play. I just wanted to let you know the violin arrived yesterday and my wife. She teaches strings and will be using ti in. My daguhter is totally elated! Wanted to rdop you a note! Great violin for the grandson! I tuned it, rosen up teh bow, sounded really good. D hines ponca city, ok. Will be donating thsi voilin to my daughter’s school in their mini-orchestra class. The violin has now arrived and my daughter is extremely pleased. I had a msuic professional look at it and he said that i got a great deal. I was pleasantly surprised to get it so quickly. Very, very good violin i love it! Thank u made my dreams come true. J gilbert rgeat falls, mt. Hello, the 3/4 violin works great. The 3/4 ivolin arrived today. It was the quickest i have seen anything come from the usa. N bell pine rivers shire, queensland australia. Very nice instrument, great communications. The violin looks and sounds awesome! My dad, teh professional violinist, said so himself. YM daughter is going to love it! Wonderful violin at amazing price. Loved the violin, my grandaughter loved it, great for beginner lessons maciejoelle 74. And yes everybody it’s the same violin you find for $130 gasbomb 117. Click to watch violin music played by. Our teacher on youtube videos.