written by on 27/11/2008
When our son started his second instrument his teacher bought us a stentor violin from a good music shop. It went out of tune and making different sort of sounds just few days before his grade 3 exam I went to a local music shop just to buy a student violin and the seller showed me a stagg violin and gave me a feedback on it. I purchased it for 90 pounds. That shop is known as expensive shop for normal products. My son managed his grade 4 and grade 5 violin exams with the same violin. We still believe it has an unite sound which can't be compared with his other two violins which were bought before his grade 3. It has been two years and there is no problem with the violin. We wanted our son doing better with his second instrument so we ended up with buying two extra expensive violins but they did not work for his violin practice and exams. Now he needs a 4/4 (full size) violin and we have planned to give him a Stagg one first and then buying an Italian violin. It is not that easy to choose the good quality violin but yes, from our experience I can say that it is not the price or brand name - it is the quality and the quality of a good violin - that is Stagg!