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Musical Instruments : Cecilio CVN-100 Rosewood Full Size 4/4 Violin with Case and AccessoriesBrowse or Search and Buy Online our Best Sellers Shopping Sales of Musical Instruments and Cecilio CVN-100 Rosewood Full Size 4/4 Violin with Case and Accessories. Rating:  - ViolinI liked the product very much, bought it for my wife. she liked it too. nice decent and worth the money. Rating: - ViolinThis violin is in great condition but I don't know anything about violins so I can't compare to any others. Rating:  - Doesn't maintain tuning and only produces scratchy soundUpon opening the case, this violin, bought for our son, does not feel like a toy. We soon discovered, however, that the tuning pegs are extremely poorly designed and manufactured. They fail to maintain tuning for any longer than half a minute. The peg and hole system is so loose and imprecise that we could actually see the pegs unspinning all by themselves as the strings were tightened--even after trying repeatedly to push the pegs further into the holes. Another major noticeable flaw is the impossibility of playing any decent, clean violin sound, no matter how much rosin we passed on the bow, which was properly tightened (my wife is a former violin player and attested to this). With tuning pegs that seem to belong to a cheap toy and do not maintain any tuning whatsoever and with a bow that only produced scratchy sound instead of clean musical notes, we believe this product needs to improve such flaws prior to being offered in the market. Rating: - Great Beginner ViolinThis is a great violin for beginners. It gives you a full value for half the price of other violins. Since it is a full size,it allows you to play it for years without outgrowing it. Many full size violins cost around $119. It is very durable and the string material lasts up to 10 months of regular play until weathering wears out the strings. However, this is not a professional violin on which you can do good trills and vibratos. This shouldn't be a problem for first time players though. Another downside is that its regular case does not provide the protection that this product needs. An accidental shove to the wall can cause severe damage to the bridge and pegs. The owner should be very careful while travelling or buy a hard case. Other than that, I recommend this violin to any beginner player who wants to get the most out of a violin. Rating:  - Excellent Value!I bought this violin several months ago. I wanted to give it a very good testing before posting a review. Not knowing anything about the violin, or whether I would even enjoy it, I didn't want to spend a lot of money. Having been playing for about 5 months, now, I have learned quite a bit and enjoy playing very much. I don't know how this compares to other beginner violins, because I have not tried to play any others, but I think this sounds great for my play level. I figure I can learn the basics and then transition to something a little more expensive if I decide to stick with it (which I almost certainly will). The violin came with everything promised (case, extra set of strings, rosin, pitch pipe, etc.) but I don't use most of it. The case is nice and does what it's supposed to. The rosin, just like many other reviewers, was broken into little bits when it arrived. Plan on spending an additional $4 at a local music store to get a good rosin. The extra set of strings came in very handy because the very first thing I did while trying to tune it up was break a string. The pitch pipe is a nice feature but I decided to download a program that lets you tune while playing into the microphone on the PC. Finding sheet music online is difficult. Then only problem I have is with the bow. Again, I don't know much about violins, but about half the bow strings, when tightened, are really tight while the other half are still somewhat slack. The "frog" also rotates a tiny bit. This doesn't affect play much but it is definitely noticeable. Still, for this price, minor imperfections can be tolerated. The cheapest violin at my local music store is around $300. I can deal with an inconsistent bow for the $230 savings. The other reviews are very helpful in getting the violin set up. Things like sanding the rosing before applying it and pushing the tuning knobs in while tightening the strings work great. Read the other reviews or even search for violin setup tips for the initial setup of the violin. After doing the research it only took me about 30 minutes to get it to start making playable sounds. Overall, this has been my favorite purchase of 2007. It has provided me with many hours of entertainment and I anticipate many more. |