Chinese Violins - Full Hand Crafted Violins

   We have received some emails ask us how to test play our instruments before place an order

   Althrough customers can do a test play other instruments in their local stores to select an instrument they love, some stores even allow the customers bring some instruments back to home on approval for a week to do the selection

   As we have never went to a violin store so don't know how they do this

   But what we do is as below so may be even better

   Before we list our way below, you need to understand this:

   We make the instrument for you, specific for you according to your all requirements

   This instrument is made for you, not for a violin store

   We know your requirements, but for violin stores, that is only for violin store's requirements and need your test play to select from them, unless the violin stores place their orders on behalf of your order.

   The instrument you do test play was not made for you, it was made for the violin store.

   If the violin stores's instruments orders are not on behalf of you, and if the instruments are from China, at our price range, in most cases, the instruments were selected prior from 1000 or 2000 mass productions per month.

   Please note, the instruments you do test play were selected from mass. They are not individual full hand made, they are semi hand in the production line for mass.

   A violinist, is paid by the mass products factory or semi hand production line, to select for some "professional instruments" from their mass productions, for some violin stores.

   Then you do the test play to select from those "professional instruments", and the instruments for you to test play may be already test played by many other customers, you only test play after those customers after their selection. This was told by many our customers, they purchased instruments in this way and not happy with them after 3-6 months and come to order from us, some people already purchased 3 those violins and each is at our price range, from their local stores and regreat their purchase, just because they can do test play before make the purchase.

   But why those instruments were passed test play by the violinist, this is because the instruments top and back plates are very thin so that it has very good vibration, so the sound is good and you love it.

   But this is the best moment, the instrument will become worse and worse after play and play, those instruments price are not very low, they are similar to our prices

   But our Lu Qing's instruments are very top after it just finished, and will be better and better after your play and play until the sound is fully developed.

   However, If you do test play to select INDIDUAL FULL HAND MADE from BIG GREAT FAMOURS CHINESE MASTERS LUTHIERS, then this is another story, their prices are the same as your local luthiers prices or at least triple or more than our prices, but those instruments may be not better than ours.

   Please note, INDIDUAL FULL HAND MADE from BIG GREAT FAMOURS CHINESE MASTERS LUTHIERS is not the same as BIG GREAT FAMOURS CHINESE MASTERS LUTHIERS labels, the difference is "INDIDUAL FULL HAND MADE" or not. There are too many examples about top No.1 or No.2, or No.3... CHINESE BIG GREAT FAMOURS MASTERS LUTHIERS and their instrumens, they are from semi hand production lines, there is nothing to do with those MASTERS INDIVIDUAL FULL HAND, it just stick a piece of lable paper with those BIG names inside the junk instruments for you to select.

   So the only advantage for you to buy a CHINESE MADE instrument at OUR PRICE range from your local store is you can test play those selected "professional" instruments prior payment.

   We would like to introduce our way AGAIN, you can consider your decision again, our pocedure may be better.

   1. Discuss with us about your mode, sound requirements, easy play, tonewoods preference, varnish, accessories, bridge and strings, price and payment etc.;

   2. We will write you a spec doc to include all your concern for you to review;

   3. You confirm your order by paying 20% depoist;

   4. Making takes 10-12 weeks after Lu Qing start on it;

   5. We send photos for you to keep to record the wood became an art product, at some major steps;

   6. We will take the instrument to a professional player at a China National organization, not a random teacher, to do the test play any one or more of your favorite pieces of music (you tell me the names) you like for you and to make a video, also we pay around $100 to the professional player;

   7. Send the video to you to watch and consider if you are willing to finalize the purchase;

   8. If yes, then pay for the balance 80%, we send the instrument to you;

   9. If not, we refund the 20% back to you.

   This is all.

   If you do not need a test play by the professional player, then the price for you is with $100 less.

   What you loss is the 20% deposit money transfer costs both ways from you to us and from we to you.

   What we can do with the instrument is that we will either post this instrument to our website for sell, or on ebay for sell, at the same price and video, as you don't like the instrument but others may like it. However, since we started do the online businss 30 years ago, we have never done this, that means, all customers are happy with the instruments made for them.