Features:

  • 3/4 violin, hand-carved solid wood spruce top, Hand-carved solid wood maple back & sides
  • Beautiful inlaid purfling & varnish finish, Ebony fingerboard, chin rest and pegs, alloy tailpiece with four integrated fine tuners
  • Includes: Cecilio chromatic tuner, Lesson book
  • Includes: Lightweight form fitting hard case with pockets, backpack straps and shoulder straps, two Brazil wood bow with unbleached genuine horsehair, extra set of violin strings, two violin bridges, a quality rosin, an adjustable shoulder rest with soft foam padding & soft rubber feet
  • 1 Year Warranty Against Manufacturer's Defects
Great for the money you spend!!!

This violin I bought it for my son and it's a beautiful violin with a beautiful sound... great as a starter pack... it came with everything they said it would... it's a great investment for someone who is looking to start learning to play the violin... the book that comes with it is awesome!!

The best violin for its price!!

I love it! It's absolutely beautiful. The case was brilliant as well! The strings on the violin are a little scractchy, but that's what we have extra strings for right? Anyway, besides that, the bow, the violin itself, the case and the tuner are all extremely helpful! Thank you so much!

A Very Nice Instrument - for the price

My MV400 has a really nice sound. It's my first violin so I can't compare, but I bet a violin that cost 10 times as much would only sound 5% better in my novice hands. I thought it might be too yellow, it is not. There are some cosmetic imperfections (black spots, some smearing of the pin striping on the edges, and a minor wood "soft" spot) in the finish, but my impression is that it was made to be a better instrument and got moved to a "less expensive" edition because of the imperfections. The result being a great sounding violin with some minor cosmetic issues. I could not/would not expect more for the price and it is a sweet starter violin. The case is really nice. One of the bows is really nice. While I'm sure there are better I'm not sure what more you could want from a bow. The second bow I am tinkering with (I have many guitars and am no stranger to instrument tinkering) but it seems to be made of good materials and just needs some fine tuning in order to adjust the tension smoothly/easily. I like the shoulder rest and will add a picture of my positioning of it. My research indicates that placement and usage of a shoulder rest is a personal preference. I only show a picture of my mounting for the guidance of other novices out there. Mess around with it and do what feels right to you. The fine tuners work well and the tuning pegs hold their position. I had to press the "E" in a bit to get it to hold, but that is just set up work and all the pegs are holding their tune. Speaking of which, the set-up was superb. The bridge was set and all strings were only 2 or 3 half steps (flat, or short of) off pitch. Being my first violin it was nice to be able to tune it and play it fairly quickly. Just some set-up notes: It took me forever to rosin the first bow...score it with an emery board first. Some on-line advice was not to touch the hairs on the bow, which makes sense. Oils from your skin would be counter productive. Something else I did was spit on the rosin. I'm sure someone will come back at me negatively about that, but the second bow rosined up in 30 seconds and 10 swipes, while the first took about 10 minutes and 500 swipes or more. My rosin was whole and unbroken. I like the lesson book so far...for technical issues, I go to YouTube. I won't comment on the tuner, I already have several and will keep that one boxed in case I ever need it. So, I will give the MV400 5 stars with one caveat - for the price. If you are curious, that is a ukulele String Swing mounted to my music stand. The shoulder rest keeps the violin from banging into the music stand, and putting the bow on the mounting screw keeps the bow from banging on the voilin. Sweet.

Great starter pack!

I received it as a gift from my parents. All the contents were packed and it looked well-cared for prior to shipment. No dings or scratches, just a beautiful instrument. It sounds pleasant, for a beginner like myself, and I definitely recommend It! Thank you so much!!!!

Exceptional value for a starter violin.

If you are a professional violinist, this violin is not for you. If you are a violin teacher with an elite mentality, then NO VIOLIN FOR YOU! To my semi-trained ear this is a good sounding instrument. There are several reviews on YouTube from actual violinists who say this is a great beginner violin. If you want to try out playing a violin without having to rent one, this is a great choice. I've never played the violin, but I do play other instruments and I can read music, so this isn't exactly starting at zero for me. However, I was able to rosin the heck out of the bow and get the violin tuned using the included tuner. I got some fairly nice sounds (again, to my ear) out of it. I can tell when a note is flat or sharp and it takes a bit of fiddling around (pun intended) with the pegs and fine-tuners to get this thing into tune. You tune one string and then that will throw another one out of tune, ad infinitum. But eventually I found that the best way to tune this is to turn all the fine tuners to the middle of the screw and then use the pegs to get close (within +/- 15 cycles) of the note you're tuning. Once you get that done with the pegs, then go back and use the fine-tuners to get it as close to the note as possible. You could also do it by ear if you have a nicely-tuned piano if you have the musical background for it. I don't have a piano, so I trusted the tuner. And the GDAE strings sounded close to the violin tutorial I found on YouTube, so I know the tuner works and is useful. Once I started playing I was able to get some clear and very resonant sounds from the violin, with the help of a nice tutorial on YouTube, I also discovered what too much rosin looks like. Like I said, I rosined the heck out of it and spent a fair amount of time wiping the fine rosin dust off of the violin. Then I loosened the bow very slightly and rubbed the back side of the bow lightly with my fingers until all of the small rosin clouds disappeared. So, I recommend starting off with maybe 10-15 swipes along the included new rosin then test and add more if necessary. Also, rosin dust will make you sneeze and leave you with sticky-fingers. I've always wanted to learn to play a stringed instrument, but never really looked into it seriously. I have several friends who play professionally and I learned from them that good violins (I mean really, really, really GOOD violins) can run into the 6 figure range, so I never pursued it seriously. For me it will likely be just a hobby, so for less than a C-note (pun intended) I can try out playing the violin. It may not be the best, but look at it this way: If I go to the store to pick up a gallon of milk and bring it back home, whether I drive there in a 1972 VW Bug or a brand new top-of-the-line Jaguar, the job gets done and the milk tastes the same either way. People may sneer at you for driving a "clunker", but that's their problem, not yours.

Wunderbar!

Beautiful violin. Came setup and ready. Aside from tuning and flossing the bow. Otherwise perfect. Couldn't be any happier with my purchase.

This violin is a great but for a beginner

I bought this violin for a friend and almost stole it when I heard it! This violin is a great but for a beginner. I am not too find with the red lining of the case, but other than that it is a great instrument.

Great cheap violin

This is a great violin for the price! It is a cheap instrument, but works perfectly and is a great way for beginners to start playing! Mine came with 2 bows, but the frog on one bow was loose and wouldn't tighten. The seller (KKmusic store) sent a replacement bow immediately after being contacted. Great experience!

Great For Beginners.

If you are a beginner, this is great. I've always had an interest in the violin and old-time fiddle music, but I've always heard that it is a difficult to learn, and never picked it up. Until recently, but I still had some reservations and didn't want to pay a large amount of money for something I may or may not play again. So this was perfect. It has everything you need (although you might want to get better strings, I did, along with some better bows),. It came ready to play, nearly right out of the case, I did have to make some minor tuning adjustments, out of my own personal preferences, than anything else. I've since had gone up in size (I needed more room on the fingerboard to spread my fingers as they should be, this one was a bit smaller than I thought it would be), and sound quality is pretty good for such a small instrument, though, I felt it could have been better. But overall, this self-taught beginner is very happy.

Great starter violin!

My son has been asking for a violin to practice on, he loves music and already plays piano and takes piano lessons, With teenager’s ever changing interests I didn’t want to drop a ton of money on a violin in case my son decides playing violin is not for him, but at the same time didn’t want to get him something that is more like a pretty toy than a musical instrument. I watched reviews by professional violinists on YouTube, and settled on this kit. It is a great starter kit, it comes with so many extras and the case alone makes this violin kit worth it. Again this is not a for someone who plays in an orchestra, but this is a great violin to start out on and practice with.

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