Best selling Bowed string instruments
Here's a ranking of the best products in this category. To give you a quick overview, we've also added some key information about the products.
1. Stentor Harlequin
The colourful Harlequin cello is carved from solid tonewoods and offers quality and style. Harlequin coloured cellos are supplied in a padded cover with bow pocket. A coloured wood bow is included (may not match instrument colour). They are made to correct measurements and specifications with good quality fittings.
2. Dimavery Violin 4/4 with bow, in case
Violin 4/4
- Wooden bow and frog
- Plastic case.
3. Stentor Messina
The Stentor Messina is the first in Stentor’s range of high-grade orchestral models. These are superb handcrafted instruments, carved from selected and figured tonewoods. The Stentor Messina cello is made in a specialist hand workshop within the Stentor factory where the most skilled individual workers produce under the close supervision of a master maker, in a traditional luthier's environment that would be familiar to makers throughout the centuries. The result is a fine instrument with a superior finish and sound. The violin is carved from solid tonewoods and finished with a hand-applied traditional shellac varnish and fitted with Pirastro strings. All instruments are individually workshop fitted.
4. Stentor Blank white goods
The Stentor name is known for quality, consistency and reliability. Stentor violins, violas, cellos and basses take students from their very first beginner instrument up to professional level. At Stentor, we recognise that the most important instrument for any musician is the one they start on and Stentor is committed to provide the quality and affordability to ensure that players have the most enjoyable and rewarding experience. Teachers and music educators everywhere recognize the quality and value Stentor offers.
Stentor violins, violas, cellos and double basses are carved from solid tonewoods, from the initial instrument shape to the finer details. Instruments are individually thicknessed for quality of sound. Stentor carefully controls the specification and measurements of Stentor instruments at their own factory workshops to produce instruments that have the essential characteristics of good tone and consistent quality control. On all Stentor instruments, the bridge and soundpost are carefully fitted to ensure the best playability.
5. P&H Bows STENTOR Student I, Set
6. Stentor Student II
The Stentor Student II cello is the recommended student cello outfit. All Stentor cellos are carved from solid tonewoods with inlaid purfling and individually thicknessed for quality of sound. It has an ebony fingerboard and ebony pegs and is fitted with a composite tailpiece with integral adjusters (1/10 and 1/16 size have alloy tailpiece with integral adjusters). The outfit includes a quality full mounted wood bow with natural horsehair and ebony frog. The cello is protected in a well-designed padded nylon cover with safety reflectors, bow and accessory pockets and back straps
7. P&H Bows STENTOR Student II, set
8. Stentor Student I
The Stentor Student I is the ideal entry-level student viola outfit. This is an instrument that offers reliable, consistent performance and good tone, enhancing the learning process for the student. Each instrument is carved from solid tonewoods with inlaid purfling and good quality pau rosa pegs and fingerboard. It is fitted with a good quality bridge and tailpiece with integral adjusters. The outfit includes a reliable wood bow and well-designed lightweight case with fitted interior, external shoulder rest pocket and music pocket, bow holders and rosin as well as backpack carrying straps.
9. Stentor Student Standard Set
The Stentor Student Standard is an entry-level outfit for players on a budget. Unlike many other economy level instruments, it is made to correct measurements and specifications. The outfit comes with a well-constructed lightweight case with brown integral cover and a good student wood bow. The violin is made from carved solid tonewoods, with inlaid purfling and blackened hardwood pegs and fingerboard. It is fitted with a textured plastic tailpiece with integral adjusters for easy tuning. It offers amazing value and should not be confused with low quality pressed timber instruments that have a short useable life.
10. Stentor Arcadia
The Stentor Arcadia is the top of Stentor's range of high grade orchestral models. These are superb handcrafted instruments, carved from the most select, highly figured tonewoods. The Stentor Arcadia viola is made in a specialist hand workshop within the Stentor factory, where the most skilled individual workers produce under the close supervision of a master maker, in a traditional luthier's environment that would be familiar to makers throughout the centuries. The superior sound is unique to each instrument and reflects the individuality of each one. The viola is finished with a hand-applied traditional shellac varnish and fitted with Pirastro strings. All instruments are individually workshop fitted.
