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Joseph Leahy
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 Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:27 pm Post subject: Re: Two Gentlemen Of Cremona |
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Hi Lemuel
Yes. I've seen it on PBS. I enjoyed watching it. There were some interesting comments. Here is a link to a preview on You tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1by4dB4azY
Now that your've reminded me, I may pick it up for myself for Christmas. 
Joe
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M_A_T_T
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Good thread CT, not something I see discussed very often, if at all. I've always wondered this, not just with violins but other instruments as I've made guitars & ukes too.
I've only made three violins, the ones posted in my "journal". The first will not leave my possesion until I am dead, the second I sold for $1000 and the third sold for $2000. Had I continued to make more I would have probably asked $2500 for the fourth and raised my price slightly on each new one until I hit a ceiling (where they didn't sell).
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Joseph Leahy
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Hi Matt
Nice to see you back here.
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ctviolin
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| M_A_T_T wrote: | Good thread CT, not something I see discussed very often, if at all. I've always wondered this, not just with violins but other instruments as I've made guitars & ukes too.
I've only made three violins, the ones posted in my "journal". The first will not leave my possesion until I am dead, the second I sold for $1000 and the third sold for $2000. Had I continued to make more I would have probably asked $2500 for the fourth and raised my price slightly on each new one until I hit a ceiling (where they didn't sell). |
Interesting, huh? Pricing, that is.
And I still have and play my own #1 also - from 1976. (yawn!)
I sell mainly to old-timey fiddlers, and students that are gifted and want to move on to something a step up from student or school quality.
Other than that, I will wheel and deal as I need to for commercial violins. It doesn't matter what they're "worth" - cost wise, because most of them get re-worked when I feel that they are worth the effort.
My Hand made fiddles are by far the most expensive violins I sell around here (Small town, NM.). Usually right around $3,500. That's about the extent of my market.
Here, there is a real tendency for beginning violins to be around the 100 - 300 range for school fiddles...
Painted violins and the like. Or $100 - 150 kits (with case and bow - etc.)
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