Student Series
Our Student Series brings professional-grade setup and tonal curation to every beginning and advancing student. Each instrument is personally vetted and professionally set up in our Massapequa workshop before shipping. Featuring Revelle, Scherl & Roth, and Snow SV200 violin outfits from $899.
Why buy from American Violin Shop — and not big-box warehouse or mass-market marketplace?
The violin your child receives from a big-box warehouse or marketplace has more likely never been touched by a luthier. It ships directly from an overseas factory or a regional warehouse where it has been, possibly for months, in the same box it was packed in — unsetup, and often unplayable without immediate professional intervention. What you receive is a product built to a price point — manufactured with lower-grade materials and reduced craftsmanship specifically to absorb the cost of storage, logistics, third-party marketplace fees, and sponsored placement — costs that can run into hundreds of dollars per unit, all quietly passed on to you,
When you but from us: every instrument in our Student Series undergoes a rigorous professional setup in our workshop before it reaches your door:
- Bridge: Custom-carved and fitted to this specific instrument
- Fingerboard: Dressed and planed for effortless playability
- Strings: Thomastik-Infeld Dominant — installed, tuned, and stretched
- Soundpost: Adjusted for maximum tone and projection
- Full acoustic check: Performed personally by our founder
A factory-setup violin can cost a student months of frustration — fighting an instrument that buzzes, goes out of tune constantly, or simply doesn't respond. A professionally setup instrument, like ours, lets them focus on what matters: the sound, the music and technique.
We also back every purchase with our Grow-With-Us™ Trade-In Program — 100% of your instrument purchase price credited toward your next upgrade when your student is ready to advance.* see terms and conditions.
Founded by Paolo Alberghini — violinist, antique instrument expert, and former sales associate of Maestro René Morel's legendary New York workshop.
