5 Factors That Affect Violin Price

How Much Does a Violin Cost ?

To be honest, there is no unified price for violins yet. Violins made of the same piece of wood or accessories are also different, every violin is unique. There are too many factors that affect the price of violins.

Prices for violins range from $100 to $10,000 or more, so it's hard to tell how much does a violin cost.

What Determines the Violin Price?

What determines the price of a violin? This is a very complex but interesting question. Here are some factors that affect the price of a violin:

Luthier's Fame

If it is made by famous luthiers such as Stradivari, Guarneri, Amati, Steiner, etc., the price must be very expensive. Regardless of the sound of the violin, as long as it is made by these people, it is priceless.

Compared with ordinary carpenters, no matter how good the workmanship is, the price is far less than the former. For many violin shops estimate the value, the first thing is not to listen to the sound, but to see who the luthier is.

The Way of Making Violin

The first is hand made violin and machine made. Machine-made violins, regardless of the wood and the player's needs, are produced quickly and of poor quality. In the modern industrial world, most beginner violins are machine-made.

Many Music Shops, retailers and wholesalers also purchase a large number of machine-made instruments in order to meet the low-cost market. Such instruments may meet the needs of beginners, but they will definitely lead them astray.

Hand-made violins are basically hand-finished except for some large pieces of wood that are cut by machines. There are also two ways of hand-made violins. The luthier work alone from the first step to the last, and luthiers team collaborates.

Generally speaking, individual making is more expensive than team making, but from the perspective of finished violins, not every individual work is necessarily well than team finished.

Choice of Tonewood

The violin originated in Europe. Traditionally, the wood for making violins is mostly European wood and they are expensive, but now other countries in the world have also found high-quality spruce and maple, bad violins often use cheap other wood even plywood.

After the wood is felled, it needs to be naturally dried for several years or even decades. The longer the natural drying period, the better the tone and the higher the price. When wood is expensive, the violin price will also expensive.

Derhyme have six warehouse for storing tonewood materials, which are used to dry the wood naturally. The air-drying time is more than five years before being selected to make stringed instruments.

Craftsmanship

The workmanship is the most significant trait when it comes to the violin. Violin price mostly depends on craftsmanship and wood age. A quality handmade violin should have beautiful purfling and F-hole, bright varnish, detailed scroll, perfect plate and great sound, without flaws.

How Derhyme do the very most important step, purfling.

Sound Quality

Many Instruments Shops put the quality of the sound at the bottom when deciding the violin price. This approach deviates from the original purpose of the violin. The violin is used to play, and the tone is of course very important, most people think that the sound is the most critical factor in the price of a violin.

Derhyme beginner violin test sound VS advanced violin test sound

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Violin Price – Derhyme Handmade Violin Price Range

Now you know why the price of violins is broad and wide-ranging. All Derhyme Violin are handmade and use quality spruce and maple tonewood. Here are the types and qualities of violins that you can buy at certain price ranges in Derhyme:

Beginner Violin Price

Wholesale price $160 - $200, these are cheapest handmade violin price that you can find, Derhyme can also supply sample for our dealer test our quality.

Student Violin Price

Wholesale price $200 - $250, these are for student and made by our luthiers team, certainly handmade and use spruce and maple tonewood.

Intermediate Violin Price

Wholesale price $250 - $350, these are better quality violins, usually hand-finished and made of high-quality wood. They are good for intermediate violin players.

Advanced Violin Price

Wholesale price $350 - $550, These violins are usually hand-finished with refined craftsmanship. Wood grains are attractive, and also can match special great fittings and enhancing the aesthetics of the instrument. They are more suited for advanced students.

Antique Violin Price

Wholesale price $400 - $850, made on the basis of intermediate violin and above, use special varnish and paint method make they looks like antique and even copy old, looks like a real old violin.

Professional Violin Price

Wholesale price more than $2500, these violins made by our master luthier（one luthier from the first step to last） and use top tonewood. They are for violinists who have been playing the instrument semi-professionally or professionally for more than ten years.

Conclusion

What Price Violin is Best to Buy? Even if you buy it for children to learn, you can't think about buying the cheapest violin. The cheapest violins are generally shoddy, without good timbre, and even the most basic size are inaccurate, which is easy for beginners to develop bad habits.

We also don't advocate buying a particularly expensive violin, and take special care not to trust the label easily, there are too many imitation labels on the market.

But the words can't be too absolute. We need to understand the purpose of buying violin. If you buy a violin to decorate your room, it's okay to be cheaper. If you are a collector and have plenty money, you can of course spend tens of thousands on famous violins.

If you want to buy it for students to study, or to play in a symphony orchestra or even professional violinist solo use, you should buy beautiful sound, well made and practically durable.