Gilga for my 4-year old daughter - which one is best for her? 
 
   12:22 on Tuesday, July 20, 2004
 
           
 
  
  
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(Nana)
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(Thank you David for recommending me to re-post this question to Violin Forum - and perhaps Liz can help me answer my question now...) 
 
I`m looking to purchase a violin for my 4-year old daughter. She`s been taking lesson for about a year (actually started to "play" violin about 6 month ago). She is renting Suzuki violin now (1/16), but I`ve read a lot of good thing about gliga  and they are reasonably priced. I`m almost ready to buy one from the violinsolver.com. But since I know nothing about violin myself, and reading some of the entries in this forum and other site, I have some questions.  
1. Should I get GEMS 2 outfit or GENIAL 1 -Oil outfit, or even GENIAL 2-Nitro outfit? I can`t really tell the differences by reading the description. 
2. Also, should I ask for the adjusters (can it be done on the "outfit"? I`m confused on this - is having adjusters good or bad? Do I need them on all 4 strings?  
3. Does the round and octagonal bows any different?  
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Re: Gilga for my 4-year old daughter - which one is best for her? 
 
   19:12 on Tuesday, July 20, 2004
 
           
 
  
  
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(david)
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Don`t thank me too soon! you don`t seem to be getting many replies here either!  Good luck with your daughter, anyway! 
 
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Re: Gilga for my 4-year old daughter - which one is best for her? 
 
   08:42 on Wednesday, July 21, 2004
 
           
 
  
  
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Sorry, I`ve only just seen this. 
 
Get a wittner tailpiece fitted: any other sort of adjusters are really horrible on tiny violins. 
 
Genial 1 rather than genial 2 for me: the price difference is tiny and the genial 1 looks better, and nitro varnish cracks easily. 
 
Gems will probably sound better still, I haven`t had a tiny Gems, only tiny genials and gamas, but certainly at 1/4 size and up the difference becomes noticeable. 
 
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Re: Gilga for my 4-year old daughter - which one is best for her? 
 
   08:44 on Wednesday, July 21, 2004
 
           
 
  
  
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O as for bows: don`t worry too much, the cheapest will probably be quite adequate.  We supply ours with Glassers because that works for us but a cheap wood bow will last until the violin is outgrown. 
 
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Re: Gilga for my 4-year old daughter - which one is best for her? 
 
   08:51 on Wednesday, July 21, 2004
 
           
 
  
  
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Liz!  Thanks for the viola string (sorry to abuse the thread but my email`s not working). 
 
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Re: Gilga for my 4-year old daughter - which one is best for her? 
 
   11:35 on Wednesday, July 21, 2004
 
           
 
  
  
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Thank you Liz.  I think I`ll get GENIAL 1 for now, and maybe I can buy GEMS for the next size.  
 
But can I ask you one more thing?  On the violinsolvers.com (I reside in the US), GENIAL 1 comes in one-piece back if I buy violin alone.  (All the violins in Outfit looks like 2-piece back) Is there any differences?  Prices are the same, but I was just curious. 
 
 
 
 
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Re: Gilga for my 4-year old daughter - which one is best for her? 
 
   11:49 on Wednesday, July 21, 2004
 
           
 
  
  
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(Liz Ward)
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The difference is cosmetic only: get whichever you want 
 
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Re: Gilga for my 4-year old daughter - which one is best for her? 
 
   22:59 on Thursday, July 22, 2004
 
           
 
  
  
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HEY do you have something against fine tuners???? 
 
well yah on small violins is a stay away, but they are nice on the older violins... and anwyays, who wants to be tuning e strings by the pegs all the time? 
 
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Re: Gilga for my 4-year old daughter - which one is best for her? 
 
   23:00 on Thursday, July 22, 2004
 
           
 
  
  
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what strings are you getting? 
 
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Re: Gilga for my 4-year old daughter - which one is best for her? 
 
   04:38 on Friday, July 23, 2004
 
           
 
  
  
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You don`t.  No-one does.  Actually I don`t use adjusters myself except for the E string but most of our customers have them.  Adjusters on a tiny violin, though, just look a mess.  Since it is impossible to tune tiny violins without them, a tailpiece with built in adjusters is by far the neatest solution. 
 
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Re: Gilga for my 4-year old daughter - which one is best for her? 
 
   21:04 on Friday, July 23, 2004
 
           
 
  
  
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