Teachers are amazed!

Teachers are amazed!

After waiting less than what I was expecting, I am happy to tell you the Topa has arrived at my house unharmed :) My son took the violin and instantly loved it.

It sounds truly AMAZING. It has been about an hour now and my son cannot take his hands off this violin.
I will give you updates as we play into the wood and wait for the new violin to true nature transformation.

[UPDATE: 1 day later]
When my son first took out the violin he was amazed at the sheer power and volume of the violin. He loves the smell of it and he has not been able to take his hands off ever since. I have seen him clean the violin of rosin almost every 1/2 hour!

I am quite amazed at the care he is giving this violin as I thought he would just let rosin pile up like his old one. After a few days of playing, he tells me the A and E strings are effortless to play in the left, although require just a bit of fancy wrist work in the bow arm to get the pure sound he wants out of the violin on any string.

He tells me after playing a few days, he feels less vibrations under his chin, and that the volume of the violin is a it decreased (maybe 10% less?) but he says the power of it is still there and that the sound is starting to become focused and warming a little. He says e string articulation is the cleanest he has seen out of every violin he's played. Overall he says he can't wait to see the violin turns out 2 weeks later, and a year later after we finish the buying process.

[UPDATE: 1 week later] I am happy to tell you that we showed the violin to my son's violin teacher, who is very very picky with violin sounds, and she said she loved it. She said the G string has the texture of chocolate (I dont understand what that means but i guess she likes it ). The metallic sort of [new string] sound is gone from the violin but now it is taking on the sound of a warming violin.

[UPDATE: 1 month later] As promised, here is the results after a month. After a month of playing on it, my teacher is amazed. My son has grown to love it and even with insurance if it breaks, he says he wouldn't want it to break because he loves the deep tones and the lush sound he gets with his vibrato.

My son's other teacher, who is a second violinist in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, just absolutely loves [my son's] new violin.

We were worried about passing his inspection, but we passed it with an A++. My teacher has a student who is interested in buying a Topa violin, and my teacher with his wife may be interested too-- they like the violin so much! They can't keep their ears away from it. I gave them all the goodword of your wonderful business!

I will have a video of my son playing on his new violin with the sound warmed up as soon as he polishes the spots he has trouble with. He now roughly has something that sounds like the Wieniaski Concerto no 2, so we should have a video for you on that later. Thank you for doing business.

March 21, 2012
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