How much do violins cost?
The violin has one of the largest price ranges for an instrument. You can get a crappy violin for the price of a guitar (not dissing guitars, just giving a ballpark figure that people are familiar with). The best violins are worth millions of dollars. Those are usually owned by private collectors, who loan or give them to soloists as gifts. The worth of a violin is, like any instrument, usually proportional to the playing level of its owner. Once you get to an advanced level it will probably be your most expensive possession. Mine is worth as much as a nice motorcycle, but less than a car. I’ve had it since I was 13 and I’ll probably keep it for the rest of my life. I bought it directly from the maker in Chicago. That’s the one I use for teaching and playing classical music. The violin I play in the band I inherited from my grandpa. It was made in 1933 in Germany. I don’t know how much it’s worth but it’d be a lot less than my good violin.
