
Core Select CS1350 Violin
Core Select CS1350 Crafted of Chinese maple and European spruce, tastefully antiqued light gold-brown to gold-amber hand-applied spirit varnish. Medium-dark tone color with a strong, clear voice with good projection. Fitted with ebony Parisian eye pegs and endbutton, ebony tailpiece, Despiau āCā level French bridge, and Guarneri model ebony chinrest. Adjusted with Larsen Virtuoso strings. Artisanal. Small-batch. Boutique. Usually, such adjectives are associated with premium prices in the American market. However, these traits can still be found in competitively priced instruments from the Core Select Series. Over the last 100 years, in every area where there has been a mass production of stringed instruments, a few master makers have broken away from the "factory group" and established themselves in small private workshops. Think of Germans such as Roman Teller, Rudolf Buchner, Bruno Paulus, and a few others. Now, this has happened in China. While the factories make s