If you come to me for lessons and you earn your keep as a good student who practices and shows up, I will see to it that you do not play on junk. The nut can be poorly cut and sanded, which means strings will break easily. I honestly don't know if the purfling is real or painted on. A good list of who owns all of the Stradivari Violins. Around 1780 the pitch that the orchestra was tuned to, changed from around 420 Htz., after this time most necks were changed out. Type Style number from your instrument, 5.) VSO, I felt completely and utterly proud of having my own violin. I'm not saying VSO's are good, they are far from it. I'm going to sound like crap anyway, so what does it matter? '&utmxhash='+escape(h.substr(1)):'')+'' type='text/javascript' charset='utf-8" data-type="undefined" target="_blank">')})() Lousy horse hair that breaks after a few weeks of use. However, on a well planned out forgery, it is not impossible to get old paper to print a fake label on and modern laid paper is still made. The insertion of fake labels has not for the most part been a practice of deception. The inserted label may confirm the appraisers opinion but rarely will sway it. Violin appraisers spend their entire careers learning and viewing thousands and thousands of violins to become a good and respected appraiser.
