Scott Cao SCV30 3/4- Cant find any info online about this model

[yoyogogo]

Scott Cao is a pretty big brand, but it seems models now are STV, and thus I could not find any information on the SCV model. Can anyone shed light on this please?

[GoPractice]

The local instruments here in California are mostly STV- labeled, that I have seen in greater numbers.

Having worked for a company that did an extensive export business, the part numbers were adapted to identify particular distributors to verify and protect source locations. The distributors would also design their own packaging, perhaps the equivalent of creating their own labels? Could this instrument have been originally sold elsewhere ( outside the US ? )

Aside from this information, how is the instrument itself? Wish there were better photos? Back?

I do have a lower end STV ( European wood ) being worked on ( new bridge, viola ) that has a printed 2014. And this means very little. It only tells me that the instrument was popular enough to have sheets of labels printed for this particular model. Sounded great, trying for a bit more. This one is for a retired professional opera player from Europe who would like to incrementally size down as they grow older.

[deans]

You could contact them directly. 

[yoyogogo]

i just asked Scott Cao website, hehe apparently its equivalent to the modern day STV017

[yoyogogo]

Just now, deans said:

You could contact them directly. 

just did  Thank you for the tip

[GoPractice]

Did they imply that the STV017 is no longer made?

[yoyogogo]

The SCV300 is China's equivalent of our STV-017E.

[Woodland]

The varnish looked like the STV-017 but with ebony fittings. The 017s used to have rosewood.

[GoPractice]

What is a SCV30?

[GoPractice]

Try to get the seller to center the bridge.

[yoyogogo]

9 minutes ago, GoPractice said:

What is a SCV30?

is the model of this violin, as you can see in the picture of the label

[GoPractice]

22 hours ago, yoyogogo said:

The SCV300 is China's equivalent of our STV-017E.

So the SCV30 is the equivalent of STV-017?

The violin shown is a scv30, not a scv300. Just curious. In the US, student instruments with the higher number is generally considered the higher quality models.

[GoPractice]

Not trying to be mean. Just curious.

The darker fittings remind me of the traditional student instrument in catalogs from several generations ago.

[yoyogogo]

yes it does look more entry level.