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@Rox I'll try to get her to record something when she's got more used to it.
It didn't work out too expensive either - about £150 all-in, and more than £50 of that was the tailpiece, chin rest and viola fingerboard. And actually there's about £25 of strings on it, but I already had all but the C in my spares stash.
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Hope these links work...
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0qdfKHxY5AGWkxiY0pqMDRnNW8
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0qdfKHxY5AGVmctYnd5N2prRGc
She's doing pretty well adapting to the 5-string. The string-crossing angles are smaller than on a 4-string so there's much more chance of accidental double-stopping (did happen a couple of times in these recordings) but she's coping really well with that. She's bought herself a Zoom G3 so she's got a looper to copy Ed Alleyne-Johnson's style, which is sounding really good but I couldn't convince her to record any of that yet.
One of the aims of making this violin was to encourage her to play more for fun now she's at the "music lessons are boring" age, and that seems to be paying off - she's played more without nagging since she's had this.
And it looks really cool - I wish I could play it (you really don't want to hear a recording of my attempts!)
It does pretty much anything you can think of actually - I've not played with one before, always used a few discrete pedals, but it's pretty amazing really. She was using my pedal board before with a clip-on pickup on the normal violin, but wanted a looper. We noticed the G3 for sale on here and she had money left from last birthday. I've never answered the "is it OK if I buy that with my birthday money?" question so quickly She's bought a case for the 5-stringer as well (purple of course).