miles Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 https://www.ebay.com/itm/263559798953?_trksid=p2471758.m4704 This violin was labeled as Italian, but it somehow looks like one of my Chinese-made violins. Am I mistaken? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wood Butcher Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 How many trained Italian makers do you think fill their days making 3/4 size violins? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deans Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 I wouldn't call it "fake Italian" Just a violin with a fake label. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miles Posted May 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 10 minutes ago, deans said: I wouldn't call it "fake Italian" Just a violin with a fake label. LOL So it might be a Chinese violin with a "real" Italian label. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
______ Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 It also has fake "one piece back". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Preuss Posted May 16, 2018 Report Share Posted May 16, 2018 I wonder how experts in 100 years will make the difference between a violin made in Cremona and a violin made in China after 2015 or so. So many have same models same style same varnish because Chinese makers imitate always things which sell well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClefLover Posted May 17, 2018 Report Share Posted May 17, 2018 On 5/16/2018 at 7:47 AM, Andreas Preuss said: I wonder how experts in 100 years will make the difference between a violin made in Cremona and a violin made in China after 2015 or so. So many have same models same style same varnish because Chinese makers imitate always things which sell well. Yes, I agree completely. One of my personal violins is from Yitamusic, I’ve always enjoyed the tone and appearance and it was under $1k. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhiyi_zhang617 Posted May 19, 2018 Report Share Posted May 19, 2018 (edited) I also agree completely. I have been searching for the best sounding violin(s) within our budget for the past 15 years for our two talented sons. During that time, I bought approximately 15 violins, all relatively old (at least 80 yrs), but one. While more than a half of them are not that expensive (1-5K), given what they are, we did pay up for the better ones, including a big name 19th century French. Believe or not, we recently ended of another new Snow JHS for the younger son as we did for the elder one 10 yrs ago. Now, I do hope to end this exhausted, expansive, and everlasting searching process. The Snow we just acquired, in my son's opinion, is simply better overall, especially with respect to tone (powerful, yet balanced and smooth with a hint of sweetness), quality, and playability. My son loves it so much, and thus only plays that violin now, although he appears to have other good options available. Edited May 20, 2018 by zhiyi_zhang617 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClefLover Posted May 21, 2018 Report Share Posted May 21, 2018 Well-made Chinese instruments can be very good! I’ve been very pleased with Eastman. One of my fiddles is a Frederich Wyss (Eastman upper model), my cellist son owns a Jonathan Li (Beijing) and Rainer Leonhardt (Germany). They are all fantastic instruments, in my opinion. I’ve heard good things about certain Scott Cao, as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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