Cecilio CVN-600 4/4 (Full Size) Hand Oil Highly Flamed 1-Piece Back Violin Outfit

I currently own eight Cecilio cvn-600 violins. What I like about these violins is the potential to create a violin with sound quality worth thousands of dollars. My collection consist of the first cvn-600 to current production. I currently have a new cvn-600 on order. What is interesting is that the weight of each cvn-600 violin has the same weight within 0.3 oz. This proves to me that Cecilio uses CNC to create their violins. This model violin has been reduced in price over the years, $500 to $160. It is currently an exceptional value. Quality has decreased slightly over the years of production, but improving lately. Cecilio has claimed in the past that the tonewoods for the cvn-600 are aged seven years. I don't believe that's true for their current production cvn-600.As good as it is out of the box, There are improvements that can be made to this violin. The first is to replace the pegs with Wittner geared pegs. No more peg slipping. The second is to use better strings, Tonica or Fidderman are good. The third is to use a better bow, like the Fiddlerman bows. I also replace the tailpiece with a carved boxwood harp tailpiece, Musical String, tailgut, MI&VI Titanium Alloy Violin Tail Gut, and chinrest, Mulko Violin Part (GL3522). These parts are available on Amazon. Of course there are sound improvements that can be made like the position of the sound post, bridge fitting and placement, etc., but those adjustments are beyond the scope of this review.Bottom line is that the Cecilio cvn-600 is a very good value which can be improved to have it compete with violins worth thousands of dollars. If you get a bad cvn-600, send it back for replacement.I will update this review after I receive my ninth Cecilio cvn-600.01/18/25: I received my ninth Cecilo cvn-600 today. The bridge was up and it tuned perfectly in a minute or less. This cvn-600 is beautiful with intense flaming in the maple back and ribs. The spruce top is very fine grained, just what a quality violin should be. The sound is great even with the stock strings provided. I can't wait to pimp out this violin with geared pegs, new strings, new tailpiece and chin-rest.If you get a cvn-600 violin as good as the one that I just received, dance in the streets because you have received a great value. A violin at $160 with this quality is an amazing value.04/09/25: I just received my 10th Cecilio cvn-600 from an auction site for less than $90. It is beautiful, the flaming of the maple single piece back is second to none. I am in the process of pimping out this violin with geared pegs, boxwood harp tailpiece, new chin rest and new strings. The serial number of this violin puts it somewhere midpoint between my oldest cvn-600 and current production. The one problem I found was that the sound post was many millimeters further behind the bridge than it should have been. That was easily corrected. There are Cecilio cvn-600 deals out there, look for them. You don't need to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for a quality violin. I hope this review revision helps you.04/16/25: The last cvn-600 purchased at an auction house for a cost of less than $90 encouraged to buy another from the same auction vendor, I paid $82 for my 11th cvn-600. Sometimes things are just too good to be true. The violin was sold as "open box". The violin body is as beautiful as my previous cvn-600, strong flaming on the back and sides, nice spruce top. Tapping the body suggests that it will be a very good sounding violin. However, it had a couple of issues. The first issue was that the sound post was missing and the second was that the "G" string was broken. Messages to the vendor receive no reply. I can easily deal with installing a sound post and restringing the violin, but could you? One may pay more for a cvn-600 at Amazon, but you then have the ability to easily return a defective violin for refund or replacement. This new cvn-600 will be pimped out like the other 10 cvn-600.

I bought the Cecilio CVN-600 after looking through reviews here and on YouTube. It was highly recommended years ago, but there was some concern that the quality had gone down. Also, the photos of the violin and package that I came across varied. I’ve attached photos of the violin I received and am very pleased with the way it looks and sounds, and you can see exactly how it looks. Lovely honey toned wood, sturdy and well-made. Rich full sound. Some of the photos at Amazon showed the violin with only one fine tuner, but this model did come with four gold plated fine tuners. It came with the shoulder rest, extra strings, extra bridge, rosin, tuner/metronome and book. The book is connected to an online site where you can see videos of the lessons and hear the music. There are also many helpful videos available everywhere online. The shoulder rest is very comfortable for me. I use the Pano Tuner free app instead of the tuner that came with the violin because I find it easier to use and it shows whether you need to loosen or tighten the string to get where you want to be. I got the violin when it was on Amazon for $179. which was within my budget and have had it for about a week. The price on Amazon seems to fluctuate quite a lot. I’m not sure I would have bought it for the more than $400. that it sometimes is. I think I would have gone for a Bunnel from Kennedy Violins if I had that much to spend, but very happy with this Cecilio CVN-600.

The media could not be loaded. I had a hard time knowing what the CVN 600 looked like and if it was worth buying after so many reviews saying different stuff. I took a chance and got it and now I want to help you guys out who might want to buy it! Watch the video and pictures!So besides what I say in the video here are some other things:After a couple more days i can see suuuuper tiny scratches and almost like small dust particles tucked right in the crevices and so I’m glad I have some violin cleaner and string cleaner which fixes the problem. Great violin but the bows/rosin/bridge should be replaced, especially the rosin and I’d say bridge. You’ll be fine with the bow for a while but they are going to limit what this violin has to offer. The strings are not something I would change directly. I’m going to have them on for a few months before I would change strings anyways so that’s good! A negative thing about the case is that the bows barely fit in it. they lay from side to side very tightly and you need to put it in exactly at the same spot and you cannot choose what way the bows fit in the case. But otherwise the case is very nice for the price and I’d recommend this violin it’s super for the price but the “kit” is not the bests and should be replaced. So even though the rosin, bow, bridge and strings aren’t the best so just buying the CVN 600 for just the violin is worth it but expect to need to upgrade the other things after a while and really change the rosin at least!! But the violin is really good for the price, even if it were just a violin in the case I’d buy it because the other things I expected to need to change anyways.I’m really just a buyer who wants to help out so this is super super honest. I will update if there’s any changes and stuff!AlsoThe pegs are not to hard to tune with but not the best either so I’m glad for having the fine tuners in the beginning when the violin goes out of tune every day because of the new strings and stuff. But I don’t think there will be a problem taking the fine tuners out later on and only using the pegs!Hope this is helpful!Im also from Sweden so my English might be bad so I apologize for that! A bonus if that It only took 3 work days until I got it (with the weekend it took 4 and a half days in total). It came in a simple cardboard package which is risky but it arrived safe and sound for me. Would just think that might not always end up okey so yea. Oh and the bridge was actually installed!! So everything came pretty much set up to play, just need to tune it and rosin the bow(s)(Summary: You get an extra bridge and it comes pre installed. The rosin is just meh so just don’t even use it buy a better one from the start. The violin itself looks good, some minor scratches but it’s really good for the price!. Bow Is ok (i will end up buying new ones.) Bows barely fit in the case though.The whole top of the case is a big pocket so it fits sheet music and books but its really thin so don’t put anything too fradgile in there. And so Everything they said would be included was included and you also get a microfibre cloth to clean the violin which is nice. Overall I would say the violin is good and everything except for the rosin is ok to start with and then just upgrade later on!)