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MaryK
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(2/4/01 11:00:22 pm)
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Knilling Cellos - Request for Info
They're better than Cremonas and
Palantinos, right? Still factory-made, student-type instruments?
Reason I ask, an acquaintance started lessons a few months back and
wants to buy rather than rent. I talked her out of a Cremona (her
teacher put the kibosh on it too), now she's interested in a
Knilling "Summit Virtuoso" cello for which the owner is asking $1700
and may go down several hundred from there. She's going to have her
teacher give the instrument a once-over, and is hoping to find out a
bit more about Knillings in general.
Any general info on
Knillings that can be passed along to her wd be appreciated.
Knillings' website wasn't very helpful when I checked it out,
couldn't get beyond its home
page.
Thanks,
MaryK
Edited by: MaryK
at: 2/4/01 11:00:22 pm
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Sorefingers
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(2/5/01 5:37:33 am)
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Knilling Cellos - Request for Info
Hey MaryK.
I started out with a
Knilling. Paid $800 for the entire outfit in 1997. Don't know what
the model was though - was bought for a local high school and was a
left over, brand new. I had it worked on and up graded as far as it
could go by my luthier - used Dominant strings etc. It was mediocre
at best. Mediocre in sound, projection and it had a nasty angled
part on the finger board at the "C" string which gave my wrist a
heck of a time.
The problem came when I tried to get rid of it.
It took one entire month of daily calling and driving within a 500
mile radius to try to get the $1000 appraisal that my luthier said
it was worth. Most shops/dealers and private buyers would only give
me $200 - $400 for it.
I tried a Knilling over the weekend at a
MARS music store outlet - it was also selling for $1700 and it was
surprisingly nice for a laminated cello. Once again it did not note
what model it was.
After testing a Doetsch, I think they could do
MUCH better in that price range with something like that - those are
hand carved. What about a Gliga or the Artist series from
Stringworks? Try them first I say.
Print out the tutorial
drcello has written about getting your first cello, or the cello
tutorial from Cellos 2 Go and give that to them.
ICS is a life
saver - has been for me.
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