Cecilio CVA-500 Handmade Ebony Fitted Viola Outfit - 15 Inches
Price: $449.95
Product Features
- One Year Warranty
- Hand-Carved Solid Spruce Top and Maple Back & Sides
- Includes rosewood pegs, chinrest, tailpiece and rosewood fingerboard
- Beautiful Inlaid Purfling & Satin Finish
- Lightweight Form Fitting Hard Case with Strap
Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Cecilio violas are carefully hand carved. Each viola is meticulously graduated to exact specifications, ensuring a consistency of tone between individual pieces. The CVA-400 model features a hand carved solid spruce top and solid maple back and sides. It has a beautiful inlaid purfling satin finish and flamed back and sides. This is a complete set and comes with natural color rosewood pegs, chinrest, tailpiece and rosewood fingerboard. The rosewood tailpiece has 4 fine nickel plated tuners which is found in very expensive violas. The brazilwood bow comes with rosewood frog and unbleached genuine mongolian horsehair. That's not all; the set also includes the following: Lightweight form fitting hard case with pockets and strap, extra set of Viola Strings, quality rosin cake and extra violin bridge. Just the included accessories retail for more than $65. This is the best viola you can find at this price. Guaranteed!! And to make it even better it comes protected with a one year manufacturers warranty.
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Customer Reviews
Clinton Story Said: Cecilio CBA 500 Viola Aug. 6th 2010
My wife, who is an realised performer desired to essay and play a progress instrument. Her instruments are piano, organ and voice . We institute this viola finished Amazon and the toll seemed ok for a beginner. Well, we had to change the gesture at the first lesson, the digit that came with the instrument was warped - 80 and not one of the expensive ones. Also needed meliorate strings, additional 30 and the string repairman at the music store had to rework the bridge, section were to high. The fixer said most all first string instruments needs a lowercase TLC from a progress mortal before they endeavor well.
So with that said, for a beginner, yes. This is a dustlike helper - for no more than a year after lessons. If the enrollee progresses well, do not keep this but go for a much better instrument. Go to a lawful string moneyman betting at least 4 instruments attractive them to the incoming warning and hit the teacher garner out the one you should buy. You may need to put down a hefty deposit in visit to remove individual instruments from his store. The student's teacher needs individual for comarison. My profession is penalization teacher, band, choir - retired. My instrument is French Horn. So, my judgment of this viola may circularize whatever weight.
Rollo Temasi Said: Good Beginner's Viola Mar. 8th 2008
I intellection this was a enthusiastic buy. I'm a beginner violist and needed a cheap viola to learn on. It was tough tuning the strings at first but if you place polymer or prosthesis drops on the prosthesis holes it becomes easier. It's pretty reddened because the wood isn't that thick. It does the employ though. Can't vex the toll either!
L. Washburn Said: the sure thing! May. 13th 2006
if your hunting for a broad quality, fakeish alter viola... look no further!! beatiful tone, quality, sound, and finish! all you could ever wish for in a viola!! :