Our teacher from Moscow Conservatory said, "this is a very good violin…buy it"

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By Raymond Hill - Bronx, NY

My son's violin teacher, Oleg Rutkovsky, is an honors graduate from the Moscow Conservatory of Music [Moskovskaja Gosudarstvennaja Konservatorija]. He recently advised me that my son's progress has greatly surpassed the quality of the student violin that we purchased for him and we should try to secure a better quality violin.

After several conversations with Rhiannon over the phone I was confident that she was not just trying to sell me a violin. As the parent of a violin student I had many questions and Rhiannon patiently discussed in details all matters that I needed answers to. After discussing my son's level of progress and my budget, we decided on a Bulgarian workshop violin.

When we arrived for my son's violin lesson his teacher inspected the violin and began to play it. He played it for quite a while and finally announced,"This is a very good violin." He asked me what was the price and when I told him he said,"It is worth the money, buy it." I'd done some researching online and saw another shop was selling the same violin for $1800. [Fiddleheads' price was $1300].

The teacher's still talking about that violin a week later. When we took it to the lesson to show the teacher he started playing it and wouldn't put the violin down. My son has these big round doe eyes and you should have seen them when his teacher kept on playing the violin; he was worried he wouldn't get the violin back!

His teacher also said that "He would feel comfortable in referring his students to fiddleheads.ca for future violin purchases. So for him to like the violin and give it a compliment, that's a big deal. And for him to recommend his students to go to Fiddleheads, that's also a big deal.

My son loves his violin and he appreciates the improvement in the quality of sound in his playing.

PS: It was my pleasure to write this testimonial. These days having something good to say about a transaction is becomming a rare event. Fiddleheads is our official violin resource and we also consider you a friend.

[UPDATE: 6 months later] This violin really makes a huge difference to Reynaldo's playing. He hears himself better and it sounds so much better. Even the older songs sound far better on this violin than on his older violin.

April 12, 2011

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