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So here is the 1st public view of my new Cecilio CEVN-1NA Red Mahogany 4/4,Electric Silent Violin in Style 1.
The appendage on the side frame is my Snark Electronic Tuner which happens to colour match the fiddle and lets me watch the actual note I am playing.
I am quite pleased to be able to practice quietly.
Ray
BTW it is ok to comment on the playing .. I have ... ugh

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I use a Snark tuner. It's ok for the price. As a tuner. As some kind of space-age on-the-fly intonation monitoring system, it won't do it. When you play fast or if you ease from one note to another, it gets a bit confused. For the money though, it's not a bad little tuner. Small, tough, inexpensive, good on batteries.
For having the tuner on when actually playing, I don't find it good for much but playing very slow steady scales when working on getting my notes more spot-on for scales and keys that I don't play as much as others. It's ok for maybe checking a long note during a song/piece, but I wouldn't want to use one for more than that. You want your ear to get developed enough to know when you're right, not your skills at reading a digital display. LOL
I like the new electric, Ray! The color match between the tuner and the violin is highly cool. Maybe I should have gotten a black Snark, but it wouldn't have fit on my electric the same way since body shape is quite different.
But yeah! The whole thing of being able to play quiet when you want to, any time of day or night on an electric is worth owning one to me, even if I didn't like playing electric just a little bit better than acoustic.
Intonation will take some work. But that's only to be expected. I have found the intonation, actually getting those notes right, to be one of the most challenging things about playing violin. But I don't think anyone sensible expects to learn to play without it being some work.
Your new electric looks like a nice little violin. How do you like it so far? I have thought about getting one of that particular model. How does it handle and feel when playing? Does the balance feel good? How much heavier is it than your acoustic?
"This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in 5 or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development." ~ Itzhak Perlman

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The Snark is a good little tuner, for the money. I use stuff on it like the tap beat detector more often than I thought I would, and I have had mine for about 6 months and use it at least several times a day on assorted instruments. Haven't had to change the battery yet. I don't expect more than that out of an inexpensive little tuner.
I've been looking at electric violins a bit. I like my 80$ non-name electric quite well, but realistically it won't last forever. I don't know as I can find another exactly like it and for all I know I may have gotten the only one out of like 500 that will actually hold tune. LOL
Not a near future project, but sometime in maybe the next 6 months it seems reasonable to think about another electric. This one caught me attention because the frame looks like it would be compatible with most regular acoustic violin parts since it has standard shape. The description says it is made of maple so far as the main frame and I would assume the neck.
What I'm actually looking for is a nice solid frame and neck that have ok balance and where the weight isn't too bad. Then most likely I'd change out the electronics for my own, and change fitting to get something solid that I like. Maybe go crazy and put in "Perfection" tuners instead of standard pegs and then I could leave off fine tuners so the afterlength would be easier to tune.
But the first thing is to find a good frame, so I was looking at this model of e-violin probably not even 24 hrs ago and checking reviews. And lo and behold, Ray just got one and MGN has one.
"This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in 5 or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development." ~ Itzhak Perlman

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But..but.. the description says the finish is metallic red mahogany..
That's natural enough..
Isn't it?
"This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in 5 or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development." ~ Itzhak Perlman
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