Revelle Model 700 Advanced Violin Outfit — "The Flagship" | AVS Artist Series™

Every configuration ships with shoulder rest and rosin included.

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The Instrument: Revelle Model 700 — "The Flagship"

There are student violins. There are step-up violins. And then there is the Revelle 700.

The 700 is Revelle's definitive statement — their flagship instrument, built without compromise for the committed student, the demanding teacher, and the serious musician who understands that true mastery requires a true instrument.

Hand-selected from mature tonewoods and finished with a hand-applied antique oil varnish, the 700 produces exceptional power and artistic range that deepens and opens with age — much like the great Italian instruments of the 18th century that defined what a violin could be. This is not marketing language. It is the natural behavior of quality tonewoods properly seasoned and properly varnished. The 700 is built to age beautifully.

Strung with Thomastik Rondo strings — a significant upgrade from the standard Dominant — the 700 arrives ready to perform at the highest student and early professional level.

Who This Instrument Is For

• Students entering Suzuki Book 4 and beyond
• Students preparing for NYSSMA Level 4 and above (NY), NJMEA Region Orchestra (NJ), TMEA All-Region and All-State (TX), FMEA District and State (FL), and CMEA Festival ratings (CA)
• Students preparing for All-County, All-State, and conservatory auditions
• Committed teachers who demand an instrument that rewards serious technique
• Serious adult musicians enrolled in private study or the AVS Adult Academy
• Musicians ready to master every bowing technique — spiccato, sautillé, ricochet, collé — on an instrument built to respond

What's In The Outfit

Every Revelle 700 outfit from the American Violin Shop includes:

• Revelle Phoenix Woven Carbon Fiber Bow — engineered for mastery of all advanced bowing techniques
• Premium Wood-Shell Deluxe Case — superior protection with the weight and feel of a professional case
• Shoulder Rest — properly fitted for immediate comfort
• Rosin — included and ready to use
• Professional Workshop Setup — performed individually before shipping

Professional Workshop Setup

Every Revelle 700 that leaves our workshop has been individually prepared by our founder:

• Custom-carved bridge (Despiau or Milo Stamm) — fitted specifically to this instrument
• Fingerboard dressing — eliminating buzzes and optimizing playability across all positions
• Thomastik Rondo strings — professional grade, installed, tuned, and stretched
• Wittner Ultra tailpiece — eliminates wolf tones and improves resonance significantly
• Soundpost adjustment — for maximum tonal projection and response
• Full acoustic assessment — performed personally by our founder before shipping

We do not ship instruments in factory boxes. Every instrument is individually prepared by hand. Every single one.

The American Violin Shop Promise: Grow-With-Us™

Every Revelle 700 purchase is automatically enrolled in our Grow-With-Us™ Trade-In Program.

When your musician is ready to move to a Master Series or professional antique instrument, we will credit 100% of your original instrument purchase price ($2,839) toward your next upgrade.*

See Grow-With-Us™ program for details and conditions.

Your Purchase Makes an Impact

A portion of every Revelle 700 sale benefits our Music, Math, and Literacy Project™ — ensuring children in the most vulnerable communities have access to quality instruments and lessons. When you invest in your child's musical education, you help make that same opportunity possible for a child who cannot.

Paolo's Recommendation

"The Revelle 700 is the instrument I hand-select and personally vet before it enters our inventory. Not every 700 that arrives from Revelle makes it to our shop floor — only the ones that pass my acoustic assessment.

What I listen for is simple: does this instrument have a voice that will grow with the student? The great Italian instruments of the 18th century — the Stradivari, the Guarneri, the Guadagnini — all share one quality that separates them from everything else: they age into their sound. The varnish opens, the wood responds to use, and the instrument becomes more itself over time. The Revelle 700, built from properly seasoned mature tonewoods with a hand-applied oil varnish, behaves the same way.

I recommend the 700 to students whose teachers have told them they have real potential. It is the last student violin they will ever need — and the first instrument that will make them sound like the musician they are becoming."

— Paolo Alberghini, Founder | Antique and Modern Violin Expert | Violinist

Founded by Paolo Alberghini — violinist, antique instrument expert, and former sales associate of Maestro René Morel's legendary New York workshop — and managed by members of the Alberghini Family.