The left handed violin has only come about over the last few years when luthiers like Gilda realised that you can not force nature to do the opposite of what it is made to do. There are many teachers who believe that you can only play an instrument right handed. This may be if you are planning to play in a big orchestra infront of many, but times are changing quickly and many orchestras will accomodate the left handed players.
If you want to play for yourself or with a group, there is no reason why you can not play the way nature made you to play.
Be aware that there still are teachers that will not teach left handed violin because of one excuse or another. Look at these people as not professional for they should be able to teach right or left handed.
The violin is a small hollow stringed instrument with four strings low to high and each string is a perfected fith to the one under it. They come in a standard size of fourteen inches but you can get them in sizes up to a twenty inch.
The standard violin is usually made of spruce front piece and maple for the sides and back. The fingerboard is usually made of ebony or ivory, and the strings are made of either metal, synthetic core or gut.
The synthetic core (nylon perlon) does not have to be tuned very often and has a lovely soft sound where as the metal strings have more of a purer, clear, loud sound which most would prefer.
There are also electric violins if you prefer. Some that are battery operated and others that plugged into an amp of sort. Be aware that the plugged violins that are plugged in will only play that way.
Some might say that to change the strings on a right handed violin to the oposite way is good enough for a left handed violin but be aware that this is not true. The construction is different for a left handed violin. It is a mirror image of the right handed violin. This means that the basebar, soundpost, bridge pegs, chin rest and other aspects are layed out differently.
There are many great violin makers who have made good quality violins. These are some of them;
Sojing, Ibanez, Merano, Palatino, Cremona, Belmonte, Yamaha, Fender, Glaesel, Carlo Robelli and Fishman, amoungst many others.
A good quality violin can cost anywhere between $100 - $3000.
A good quality electric violin is in the region of between $200 - $20,000
The price compares with the maker of the violin and price will include a bow, rosin and case.
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