My eleven year old daughter is showing a lot of promise when it comes to playing the violin. When she started taking up lessons when she was only five years her instructor was impressed with the speed that she was able to learn the basics of what she needed to grasp. The lessons that they were tackling quickly became more complicated and difficult. Now she plays in her school orchestra and I am always hearing good things about her from her musical teacher. My daughter’s violin instructor advised me that it was about time that we get a new violin for her. The one that she is using is no longer for the level of skill that she was able to master. She needed an intermediate or even an advance instrument and I knew that either way it would cost me a lot of money.
Money is not an issue with me however as long as it would be for my daughter’s future and pleasure I would be willing to spend any amount. I want her to achieve her goal as fast as she can. So I enlisted the help of my daughter’s instructor to find the best instrument for her since I did not know that much about picking musical instruments. I figured it would be best if I let someone who knows those things to make the pick for me. That was how I came to realize that there are so many violin brands out there and that picking the best one is really a tough task to accomplish. Here is one of the best that we came across:
The Otto Benjamin Violin
This is a fully hand carved instrument and you could tell that just by looking at it. The craftsmanship is superb but you could tell right away that it is the product of human hands. It does not have that impersonal precision of a machine made instrument. Its back is made from a single piece of wood unlike others that are pieced together which gives it a more solid sound. The pieces used in its construction are all hand picked to provide the best sound quality. An amber varnish is applied on its surface by hand which gives it a nice finish. It comes with a genuine Pernambuco bow.
The tonewoods used in the creation of an Otto Benjamin Violin is picked from the forests of Germany and Bosnia and was crafted in the most highly skilled way possible. Without any doubt this instrument rivals the quality of those that were made in the past. We agreed right way that it was something that my daughter should try. We took her back to the store and she fell in love with t right away. She played with it beautifully. I paid over $2099.00 for that instrument and it is all worth it. I have heard though that some online stores offer amazing discounts for it. If you want to get an Otto Benjamin for your child then you really should definitely go for it. They would surely love it.