I was wondering if most people had old violins, new violins, or somewhere in the middle. Please vote!!!

Erm not sure... anywhere between 1990-2002. It's a Eurostring Violin made in China and it's says Stradivarius heritage.. that's all.

1850-1899

Dave

its 2000-2004 for now! Its a Stentor. But hopefully, I'll be getting a new instrument this week!

Ooh yay exciting I love getting a new instrument!!!

Mines 1870 French, from the Caussin School apparently, whatever that is....
Just got it and it's fab!!!

who voted "before 1700"? That must be a very, very old violin!!!

hehe, mines a brand new Arcadia, what ever that is!

i really dont know when mine was made although i do know one thing, its probably really rare, cuz every time some one sees my violin, they go what the, cuz i think its becuz of the color of my violin, but exactly when it was made...hehe

Cecilia,

There are a number of Stradivari violins and other well known Italian makers instruments (Amati for one) that were made pre- 1700. There are also quite a lot of instruments from the Tyrolese school and Austria/Italy borders that date from then too.

What you have to remember though is that the majority of these instruments don't look as they were originally made. Over their three centuries of existance they have undergone a lot of changes that now makes them 'modern instruments' in the playing sense.

Even instruments dating from pre-1850 will have had a neck graft - where the neck is replaced by one that is more angled and with a longer fingerboard. These changes were made with the advent of more difficult music and an increase in use of the upper playing positions on the violin.

Amanda

hey i know there ARE violins made pre-1700, otherwise I wouldn't have put that in the poll... I was just wondering who was lucky enough to own such an instrument!

well, usually you can get violins as old as from pre 1700 from auctions but usually at a very high price-well, i dont own one

I would have thought they would cost an awful lot!