If only all reviews could be this beautiful! Your honesty and professional opinion are a perfect example of how such reviews should happen. Je t'adore, Mademoiselle Esther!
Yes, as a beginner you most likely don’t even know what the parts of the violin are, and how to even hold the violin, so i would recommend they put it but still keep the strings loose so that no damage could happen
It just amazes me how they can makes a violin so inexpensive that you can actually play. When I started playing, I couldn't afford to pay for maintenance on my violin, so I learned to do the job myself. A friend and client of mine owns a music shop and he always had some basket case violins to trade for work on his horses feet, (I'm a farrier by trade). I'd take the junk parts home and put violins together. Some were still junk, but some actually played quite well. I have a Chinese made cremona that I completely disassembled and re varnished that is one of my favorites.
This review is misleading people who never plays violin but want to buy their fish violin to learn. I am hopping others don't make the mistake that I have made, believe her and buy $65 violin as their first violin. After 15 minutes of learning twinkle, twinkle, little star, I proble can not tell the sounds different between $65 or $500 or $5000 OR $5 million violins, but I can definitely tell, if the violin stay in tones or now and is easy or hard to play on E strings. Therefore, although, sound is important, however, it probably is not the most important thing, the other two things that are more important, 1) easiness to play and 2) stay in tones which are far more important than sound good. NEW student players probably can't tell the sound different because they have no experience (only NEW student will buy cheap violin to start with, professional will throw it in trash, e.g.regardless she says how good this violin,, she will never use this violin in a concert). However, The reason these two things are far more important is because e NEW student CAN tell the difference (e.g. hard or easy to play and stay or not stay in tones). For the sound, most NEW students require time and experience to build knowledge of sound, in order to determine if "sound" is good or bad. There for this review is very misleading people who know nothing about violin and want to buy their first violin to learn
Esther, the sounding off tune is due to not only the strings and pegs but also VERY important is te right placement of the bridge. I don´t see it perpendicular to the top. That affects entonation, which depends on the length of the string. It shortens if the bridge bends foward.
really interesting your review, specially if you have played so many different violins and this is perfect for beginners, as you said, it's really economic and sounds according to the price
Nice finish and colour on the violin. I have a el cheapo violin as backup, and the tone sounds similar. I wonder if better strings would make it sound better. The wooden bow that came with mine is surprisingly quite good much better than the fibreglass I had :) Also, nice dress too.
Wow how many years playing? And i also hate the orange yellow colors. They could have gone even more brown with this but honestly it looks really good and with a high gloss finish on most models and with a case thats crazy. I wonder how cheap they could make it without the case.
My God, she is just SUCH an extremely cute, tender, refined and just adorable girl, looks stunning in that little dress and all. Bless her little heart !
The bridge looks too high and while/after tuning it might be checked if it is 90 degrees straight to the top/tailpiece side. With your experience it's easy to play anything but that was not my case. I started with a Yamaha V3 and I was very happy with a new set of strings. Absolutely no cheaper violin, please. Thanks!
When you grade this violin as a 9/10, what are you comparing this to? Is the comparison based on other violins in the same price category or violins in general? BTW, if you could, at least for future reviews, could you do 2 separate grades? One for price category and the other in type, such as beginner, intermediate, advance, category? Which ever you feel it falls into. Thank you.
I was ready to buy this one as my first violin (-shaped object). Sadly, they only do UK and US shipments. Now let's find the same violin from other sellers or even straight from China...
Could you review a best value violin like the best $500.00 violin or one that sounds better than a Stradivarius that is currently made for the least price?
such a delight to see a French with a british accent - simply beautifull! ..... and the conclusion? you can turn a $65 fiat panda into a $-million lamborghini, ferrari, maserati with just the passion and a little bit of rosen :-) . Molto bella. At the end of the day, it's a vehicle with 4 wheels and the ability to bring you from point A to point B. The difference is how much time you've got left on the day to enjoy the sights. Or who the passenger is, and whether that passenger has good enough hearing to distinguish the staccato alto voce from screetching tires lol
The strings on the the cheapie violins are very bad,She should change the strings and put something like Dominant Strings on it, and it might really sound like something.
Get a set of dominant strings put on and get the bridge cut and the nut cut properly for you hunnie! Once done properly it will sing like a birdie 4 ya!! And get a model with a wooden tailpiece!!
This review is unclear and may misleading NEW violin players who never played violin before. Here is my Honest opinion from a person who never played violin before, and only learned playing "twinkle twinkle little star," (about 15 min), I now CAN tell, this $65 dollor violin is only good for person from not knowing anything about violin to 15 min of learning twinkle. After 15 minutes and learned twinkle, this violin is no good to continue using it. 1) not stay in tones will make the play constantly adjusting, time consuming and break up practice. 2) as she mentioned, E-string is hard to play, because violin nut has incorrect height (if, i, who only have 15 min of experience on playing violin can tell this clear mistake, i am not sure why she could not clearly pointed it out). Also, the strings are very thin, which means it will sound too bright and easy to break when you over-tighten (common mistakes by NEW player, yes, i over tighten the string and my A string snapped). Btw, I brought Cecilio CVN-200 ($120) which has the exact same issues. After 15 min of learning, I immediately brought Suzuki violin ($399), what day and night. Violin nut has correct height, which makes e string much easy to play with, the strings are much thicker (e.g. CVN-200's G string is same thickness of A string of Suzuki). So my recommendation to people like me, try to borrow a violin for 15 min and learn the twinkle, then shop for better violin. You can also go to violin shop and ask them for one and learn twinkle in 15 min (or go to 2 violin shop to learn twinkle). DO NOT buy $60 violin, please spend little bit more on good violin. The $60 violin is only good for the first 15 minutes (not counting you have to constantly spend time to adjust and maintain the tones in 4 strings), which you can learning twinkle for free (save you $60), when you go to the violin shops and borrow a violin for 15min.
I do agree with that comment on saving up to buy a better violin. I bought a cecilio cvn 300 and cevn1bk silent electric as my first two violins and within a week or two the neck on the accoustic was seperated from the fingerboard because it was warped and I had to practice with the electric til I could by a better violin. In may I bought a $400 violin and I loved it. I have now been playing for almost 5 months and the violin is still in good condition and I don't play the electric much anymore because I love the sound on the accoustic alot more.
Esther, I don’t understand why violinists (and woodwind players, et cetera) keep doing videos of cheap instruments. There’s only a handful of instruments that you can get away with going under a couple hundred dollars (sometimes) and violins are not one of them, unless of course you are your own violin luthier 😉
@Lily Rose - I hear you about commitment. Let me share a viola story. One day when practicing the violin, I was thinking about cellos, but 😩 the $$, so I thought, why not hive a cheap viola a go, so I purchased a new CVA-500 for $180. The nut height was a slight bit much, but aside from that, the setup was decent, decent fittings, and it had Preludes on it, and didn’t sound bad, so good enough to get started. Things were going well until one day when the sound-post fell and the violin repair shop was consulted. Well, Erika repositioned the sound-post and did a little filing and for $20 and 20 minutes, voila! Viola😎.
@Lily Rose .. Bottom line, she said mine was one of the better examples of that product, so I guess I should consider myself lucky. I can use this one for quite a while now thankfully, and the thing sounds better than before when I thought it was ok! Happy Holidays!
@Lily Rose -yes I understand totally, but I think when you get to a sub $100 level, you’re probably asking for more trouble than not. That said, I have to point out also that the bow is just as important as the instrument. My experience has been that you have to spend at least $50 to get a workable bow, and they don’t last forever either, and then a rehair costs about that much, so you end up taking a chance on more and more $50 bows. You can get a decent bow that’s a few hundred and rehair that periodically, but then there goes your sub $100 violin concept. Just sayin’...🙏
It's clear that the player makes the sound of the Instrument. Even if it's only 65 Dollar you should go to a luthier to set it up properly. The bow is bendy as frick and doesn't have any stability in it. Paintjob is bad, action too high, bridge too thick and assumeable not shaped very well. The fact that the soundpost isn't loose tells it's too long or set with too much tension so the sound will always be muffled. I was wondering how many shots were taken on the playing scenes until it really worked out. If someone starts out with such an VSO he will loose every interest in learning the violin any further.
The Garry/Kennedy/Chinese violins are basically good violins, with decent soundpost fitting, pegbox, neck angles, and weirdly uniform backplates. Where they are wretched are the bridges, they don't even bother to fit the bridges. But the violins made within the past few years aren't VSO at all, because they are so uniform and symmetrical. And that's with all Chinese made violins nowdays. Most parts of these modern violins are being CNC machined and then assembled.
New strings stretch a lot, and non-locking pegs will slip slightly until they age enough to bite. Even my carbon fiber violin take a few days to stretch new strings despite having locking pegs and an impervious body/neck.
The sound of the violin isn't great but your playing is fabulous ❤️💜
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If only all reviews could be this beautiful! Your honesty and professional opinion are a perfect example of how such reviews should happen. Je t'adore, Mademoiselle Esther!
2:50 - 3:10 I totally agree with you.
Putting the bridge on the violin (and tuning the violin) is quite difficult for a beginner.
Yes, as a beginner you most likely don’t even know what the parts of the violin are, and how to even hold the violin, so i would recommend they put it but still keep the strings loose so that no damage could happen
It just amazes me how they can makes a violin so inexpensive that you can actually play. When I started playing, I couldn't afford to pay for maintenance on my violin, so I learned to do the job myself. A friend and client of mine owns a music shop and he always had some basket case violins to trade for work on his horses feet, (I'm a farrier by trade). I'd take the junk parts home and put violins together. Some were still junk, but some actually played quite well. I have a Chinese made cremona that I completely disassembled and re varnished that is one of my favorites.
Wow! That's a great deal, all the little things that go along with the violin! What a combo!
No one:
Esther: I have 60 violin at 69$, how Many....
Math teacher: I N S P I R A T I O N
I'm surprised there's coming sound out of it at all for that price.. I'm quite impressed actually😅
Base on sound, how much do you feel this violin is worth? $200, $300, $400, etc?
This review is misleading people who never plays violin but want to buy their fish violin to learn. I am hopping others don't make the mistake that I have made, believe her and buy $65 violin as their first violin. After 15 minutes of learning twinkle, twinkle, little star, I proble can not tell the sounds different between $65 or $500 or $5000 OR $5 million violins, but I can definitely tell, if the violin stay in tones or now and is easy or hard to play on E strings. Therefore, although, sound is important, however, it probably is not the most important thing, the other two things that are more important, 1) easiness to play and 2) stay in tones which are far more important than sound good. NEW student players probably can't tell the sound different because they have no experience (only NEW student will buy cheap violin to start with, professional will throw it in trash, e.g.regardless she says how good this violin,, she will never use this violin in a concert). However, The reason these two things are far more important is because e
NEW student CAN tell the difference (e.g. hard or easy to play and stay or not stay in tones). For the sound, most NEW students require time and experience to build knowledge of sound, in order to determine if "sound" is good or bad. There for this review is very misleading people who know nothing about violin and want to buy their first violin to learn
My God what a talent. You know a lot. Congratulations. Very good to see your videos, an inspiration to give strength to practice.
You could make anything sound good, Ms. Abrami. Always a pleasure to hear you play.
Being a good musician is much more important than having a great violin, but when you are already very advanced a good violin is inevitable...
Esther, the sounding off tune is due to not only the strings and pegs but also VERY important is te right placement of the bridge. I don´t see it perpendicular to the top. That affects entonation, which depends on the length of the string. It shortens if the bridge bends foward.
really interesting your review, specially if you have played so many different violins and this is perfect for beginners, as you said, it's really economic and sounds according to the price
Aquí me doy cuenta que no es mi violín (barato), soy yo.
X2 jajajaja pero es hermoso y suena re lindo su violín
ánimo , sigue practicando ! tu puedes ! ;)
Leave it to Esther to add some sanity to my day! She always has a fun video. 😃
Nice finish and colour on the violin. I have a el cheapo violin as backup, and the tone sounds similar. I wonder if better strings would make it sound better. The wooden bow that came with mine is surprisingly quite good much better than the fibreglass I had :) Also, nice dress too.
You sounds amazing in any violin!
Wow, what a skilled musician you are! Thank you!
Wow how many years playing? And i also hate the orange yellow colors. They could have gone even more brown with this but honestly it looks really good and with a high gloss finish on most models and with a case thats crazy. I wonder how cheap they could make it without the case.
Thank you Princess 🌹🌹
God bless you esther
Greetings from India. Happy New Year to you Esther and to your family and to all your followers
Very inspiring! Although it feels a bit like deja-vu from last year :)
Happy year 2021 with lots of musical adventures, health and joy!
My God, she is just SUCH an extremely cute, tender, refined and just adorable girl, looks stunning in that little dress and all. Bless her little heart !
The bridge looks too high and while/after tuning it might be checked if it is 90 degrees straight to the top/tailpiece side. With your experience it's easy to play anything but that was not my case. I started with a Yamaha V3 and I was very happy with a new set of strings. Absolutely no cheaper violin, please. Thanks!
Woow Esther! You can do magic with any violin 😮
When you grade this violin as a 9/10, what are you comparing this to? Is the comparison based on other violins in the same price category or violins in general?
BTW, if you could, at least for future reviews, could you do 2 separate grades? One for price category and the other in type, such as beginner, intermediate, advance, category? Which ever you feel it falls into.
Thank you.
I was ready to buy this one as my first violin (-shaped object). Sadly, they only do UK and US shipments.
Now let's find the same violin from other sellers or even straight from China...
Could you review a best value violin like the best $500.00 violin or one that sounds better than a Stradivarius that is currently made for the least price?
Hi Esther. Can you help me understand why one would stop using a shoulder rest? Is it risk of damaging the expensive fiddle, or positioning...?
It's just a matter of YOU being comfortable! Playing without a shoulder rest may or may not be for you, and that's totally fine.
Great your voice & dressed x so nice new violin like it
why does it look like it was spray painted?
Hey Esther. Please play Czardas- V.Monti soon. Will wait for it.
6:08 Proof that having perfect pitch is useful.
Wait, you're reviewing a violin? It took me a while to notice
yes!!! So there is a chance I can start up violin play ja да
such a delight to see a French with a british accent - simply beautifull! ..... and the conclusion? you can turn a $65 fiat panda into a $-million lamborghini, ferrari, maserati with just the passion and a little bit of rosen :-) . Molto bella. At the end of the day, it's a vehicle with 4 wheels and the ability to bring you from point A to point B. The difference is how much time you've got left on the day to enjoy the sights. Or who the passenger is, and whether that passenger has good enough hearing to distinguish the staccato alto voce from screetching tires lol
Just like Jean-Luc Picard!
Very nice
The strings on the the cheapie violins are very bad,She should change the strings and put something like Dominant Strings on it, and it might really sound like something.
I had one of these at the beginning
You are Amazing
Wow!!!!!
I'm so impressed by you such a lovely young lady.💖
she is so beautiful
👏 “And remember, it’s not the [violin] that makes the music…it’s you.” - Sarah Jeffery (recorder player) 😉 ♫
It’s a $65 violin and for that it’s not bad at all for a beginner
Get a set of dominant strings put on and get the bridge cut and the nut cut properly for you hunnie! Once done properly it will sing like a birdie 4 ya!! And get a model with a wooden tailpiece!!
I voted that dress.
I can see just from looking at that the bridge is too high and too thick haba
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exactly like mine, even the soulder rest is equal 😢
Gurl the bridge is quite leaning
This review is unclear and may misleading NEW violin players who never played violin before. Here is my Honest opinion from a person who never played violin before, and only learned playing "twinkle twinkle little star," (about 15 min), I now CAN tell, this $65 dollor violin is only good for person from not knowing anything about violin to 15 min of learning twinkle. After 15 minutes and learned twinkle, this violin is no good to continue using it. 1) not stay in tones will make the play constantly adjusting, time consuming and break up practice. 2) as she mentioned, E-string is hard to play, because violin nut has incorrect height (if, i, who only have 15 min of experience on playing violin can tell this clear mistake, i am not sure why she could not clearly pointed it out). Also, the strings are very thin, which means it will sound too bright and easy to break when you over-tighten (common mistakes by NEW player, yes, i over tighten the string and my A string snapped). Btw, I brought Cecilio CVN-200 ($120) which has the exact same issues. After 15 min of learning, I immediately brought Suzuki violin ($399), what day and night. Violin nut has correct height, which makes e string much easy to play with, the strings are much thicker (e.g. CVN-200's G string is same thickness of A string of Suzuki). So my recommendation to people like me, try to borrow a violin for 15 min and learn the twinkle, then shop for better violin. You can also go to violin shop and ask them for one and learn twinkle in 15 min (or go to 2 violin shop to learn twinkle). DO NOT buy $60 violin, please spend little bit more on good violin. The $60 violin is only good for the first 15 minutes (not counting you have to constantly spend time to adjust and maintain the tones in 4 strings), which you can learning twinkle for free (save you $60), when you go to the violin shops and borrow a violin for 15min.
I do agree with that comment on saving up to buy a better violin. I bought a cecilio cvn 300 and cevn1bk silent electric as my first two violins and within a week or two the neck on the accoustic was seperated from the fingerboard because it was warped and I had to practice with the electric til I could by a better violin. In may I bought a $400 violin and I loved it. I have now been playing for almost 5 months and the violin is still in good condition and I don't play the electric much anymore because I love the sound on the accoustic alot more.
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Sushi a beautiful woman with tremendous 😍 talent. Cheers 🍻
Hello if you have a Strad insted i take that😄❤❤
Zigeneurweisen yes please
You are so pretty
This violin can play some Irish fiddle music
when you come into contact with something cheap, it turns into something valuable.
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Strings need to be replaced for better quality.
Esther, I don’t understand why violinists (and woodwind players, et cetera) keep doing videos of cheap instruments. There’s only a handful of instruments that you can get away with going under a couple hundred dollars (sometimes) and violins are not one of them, unless of course you are your own violin luthier 😉
@Lily Rose - I hear you about commitment. Let me share a viola story. One day when practicing the violin, I was thinking about cellos, but 😩 the $$, so I thought, why not hive a cheap viola a go, so I purchased a new CVA-500 for $180. The nut height was a slight bit much, but aside from that, the setup was decent, decent fittings, and it had Preludes on it, and didn’t sound bad, so good enough to get started. Things were going well until one day when the sound-post fell and the violin repair shop was consulted. Well, Erika repositioned the sound-post and did a little filing and for $20 and 20 minutes, voila! Viola😎.
@Lily Rose .. Bottom line, she said mine was one of the better examples of that product, so I guess I should consider myself lucky. I can use this one for quite a while now thankfully, and the thing sounds better than before when I thought it was ok! Happy Holidays!
@Lily Rose -yes I understand totally, but I think when you get to a sub $100 level, you’re probably asking for more trouble than not. That said, I have to point out also that the bow is just as important as the instrument. My experience has been that you have to spend at least $50 to get a workable bow, and they don’t last forever either, and then a rehair costs about that much, so you end up taking a chance on more and more $50 bows. You can get a decent bow that’s a few hundred and rehair that periodically, but then there goes your sub $100 violin concept.
Just sayin’...🙏
@Lily Rose Thank you !!
We can get lucky sometimes.😁🙏u
It's clear that the player makes the sound of the Instrument. Even if it's only 65 Dollar you should go to a luthier to set it up properly. The bow is bendy as frick and doesn't have any stability in it. Paintjob is bad, action too high, bridge too thick and assumeable not shaped very well. The fact that the soundpost isn't loose tells it's too long or set with too much tension so the sound will always be muffled. I was wondering how many shots were taken on the playing scenes until it really worked out. If someone starts out with such an VSO he will loose every interest in learning the violin any further.
The Garry/Kennedy/Chinese violins are basically good violins, with decent soundpost fitting, pegbox, neck angles, and weirdly uniform backplates. Where they are wretched are the bridges, they don't even bother to fit the bridges.
But the violins made within the past few years aren't VSO at all, because they are so uniform and symmetrical. And that's with all Chinese made violins nowdays. Most parts of these modern violins are being CNC machined and then assembled.
I can't concentrate
Stop forcing us to watch the complete video🤤🤦♂️and since when have you started playing violin in your lingerie.....excellent idea though😬
VSO (violin shaped object) disposable toy for newbies
$65 is flat out exploitation.
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Call me a simp, but I wanna marry her.
@Penultimate H Dio..Hohoo!
@Penultimate H I'll take on the winner from you two in the next round.
Okay but what does this comment have to do with the video? 😐
Sorry, you'll have to wait in line.
@@mitchmatthews6713 I'm the first one in line.. stay behind lad
You can burn it if you feel cold!
You sound great; the violin sounds horrible.. and can't keep a tune. Happy Holidays!
New strings stretch a lot, and non-locking pegs will slip slightly until they age enough to bite. Even my carbon fiber violin take a few days to stretch new strings despite having locking pegs and an impervious body/neck.