This is tough one with FM...because at the level of professionalism that comes with his playing....he would make even a tree trunk stretched with rubber strings sound good!

It's kinda hard to get a sense or feel for an instrument through a video like this. I think it sounds fabulous, but then again, there's no substitute for having one shipped to your house to try out for yourself or heading on over to the store and getting it under your chin and putting the bow to it.

In my case, I'm in a small town in Argentina so I had to take a leap of faith after a long period of arduous research....at my level of "rookie" playing, I ended up settling for a Gliga which was affordable and easy for me to get down here. However, my mom lives in Florida, so if I was living back home, I probably would've made the trip down to Ft Lauderdale to try out some of these Fiddles myself...

Having these Fiddles test-driven and set up personally by a professional like FM bears alot of weight...so I'm sure whatever you come out of his store with down there would be a good one.