Pros & Cons
Pros
The violin looks very nice but, more importantly, sounds phenomenal! It has a wonderful tone and sounds powerful without being brash. After testing its sound and projection, my mentor and i agree that this is the great violin for the intermediate viol... Read More
The customer service is top notch, and they respond very quickly. If you doubt that they professionally set-up the violins, you also get a check list and the date on it as a prove that the violin is professionally set up. I wasn't at all worried about... Read More
The wood grain is absolutely beautiful, and it isn't hidden by the unnatural sheen of varnish. From what i can tell, the violin seems well built, the satiny finish is beautiful and i love that you get the aubert bridge with the g1.
The violin with the d'addario prelude strings comes equipped with a bright cheerful sound on the e and a strings. I believe this violin will faithfully reproduce the sounds of any type of strings installed on it with mind-blowing, ear-pleasing satisfa... Read More
Highlights
Quality
Love their service and happy with the transactions.
I am very pleased with the quality of the violin as well as the service provided by kennedy violins.
I first purchased a violin there feeling the service would be better from someone local and national, but when i got the violin... Read More
It isn't the quality of a $1000 violin in terms of details like the top carve, etc.
Price
The price is good for what you are getting.
Shipping
It arrived fully set-up; the bridge was tipped forward a tiny bit, probably from the stress of shipping, but that was easy enough to fix.
They upgraded my shipping to overnight so that it would arrive before christmas for no extra charge.
Packaging/appearance
It is a beautiful instrument, set up really well right out of the box, beautiful sound, easy to tune and stays in tune.
Competitiveness
I ordered my richard bunnel g1 outfit from the kennedy violins website.
We bought the ricard bunnel g1 for our daughter for her 6th grade orchestra program.
Overview
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- This product had a total of 129 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 25 2022.
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Purchased the brunell fiddle outfit
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None of that would matter if the sound wasnt good
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I wasn’t willing to pay a 1000 or more for a violin for a 12 year old that probably won’t be interested in playing long term
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
In about my third week i decided i wanted to continue so i went to a local violin shop and tried a 500 violin with far superior strings than the one i was renting
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
S pick up a snark tuner the included one is soso
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I didnt love the brazilwood bow but thats just a personal preference
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It is very easy to get a cheap violin that wont hold tune sound is poor and just ends up discouraging the violin student
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Not sure about the sound though as it is the first day i have it