This violin is absolutely gorgeous to look at. One of the prettiest violins I’ve played. The sound, not as much, in my opinion. It sounds bright, yet sort of muffled and hollow. The e string is calm, but sings quite nicely. I wouldn’t describe it as overly rich. The G and D strings I was expecting to be more rich than they were. Overall it’s a great violin. It had Peter Infeld strings on it which I like, but maybe it would sound better with a string set that is to the warmer side.