The Resolution of the Violin Saga

I believe we have finally resolved my daughter's violin issue. We took the old, beat up violin back to the store from where we got it, and came home with a brand new, shiny, Stentor Student violin. She's had it for about a month, now, and has played in two concerts with it, with no problems.

A funny little story, though. One of her orchestra conductors asked, rather skeptically, what kind of violin it was and where we got it. When we told her it was from the music store the school recommended, and she said that it was fine. So, it kind of makes me wonder how much she really knows about the whole thing, especially since several leads she gave us on good violins didn't pan out.

Incidentally, one of our daughter's classmates is still using the First Act violin she had at the beginning of the school year, and it's working just fine.

However, I am glad we switched. Now, everybody's happy (her main orchestra teacher didn't question the violin at all--the one who did is primarily a brass player, and what do they know anyway :P) and the new violin looks and sounds great.