What Goes Into the Price of an Infinite Strings Violin?

When purchasing a violin, one of the most important questions is not simply how much it costs, but what that price is actually paying for.

At Infinite Strings, our philosophy has always been simple: most of the value of a fine violin should go directly into the instrument itself. From the very beginning, our goal has been to build the best sounding violin possible within each price range.

Premium Tonewood

Everything begins with the wood. We carefully select well-aged tonewood for every collection, with Italian spruce introduced in our Master Build collection and premium Italian spruce paired with aged Bosnian maple for our higher-end instruments. These materials represent a significant investment and provide the foundation for the violin’s tonal potential.

Time, Precision & Experience

Building a fine violin takes hundreds of hours, but more importantly, it requires precision.

From arching and plate graduation to acoustic tuning and final tonal adjustment, many of the most critical decisions are measured in fractions of a millimeter. During graduation, it is common to make repeated refinements within a tolerance of 0.1 millimeter, constantly listening, evaluating, and adjusting the instrument until the desired response is achieved.

The goal is never to remove more wood—it is to remove only the right amount.

The People Behind the Instrument

Much of the cost of a fine violin comes from the people who build it. Experienced luthiers, award-winning makers, and skilled setup specialists each contribute to the final result. Their knowledge, craftsmanship, and countless hours of work cannot be replaced by machinery alone.

Acoustic Work & Professional Setup

The final sound of a violin depends on far more than its appearance. Bridge fitting, soundpost adjustment, tonal refinement, play testing, and professional setup all require experience, patience, and careful listening. Every Infinite Strings violin is individually adjusted before leaving our workshop.

Our Philosophy

Many workshops produce a large number of instruments and encourage customers to compare multiple violins before making a decision.

Our approach has always been different.

Rather than investing our resources in producing more instruments, we prefer to invest them where musicians can hear and feel the difference: better tonewood, more experienced makers, more time devoted to acoustic work, and greater attention during the final setup.

By keeping our focus on the instrument itself instead of unnecessary overhead, we are able to offer a level of materials, workmanship, and acoustic refinement that many players would normally expect only at much higher price levels.

After all, it makes far more sense to build one exceptional violin than to ask customers to search for the best one among ten or twenty ordinary instruments.

A great violin is not found. It is built.