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I have owned the jazz violin, the “big sister” of the Neolin for some time and I am discovering further new possibilities. It is easily accessible – this means, it is easy to play from the beginning. You have no difficulties in finding the right sound without being obliged to ‘force’ the instrument.

Its sound is well-balanced, warm, rounded off, clear and self-supporting. The reaction is very fast and precise, and consequently sound experiments become quite interesting!.

When playing pizzicato you can use the plectrum according to tabulators and thus create “jazz-like” sounds. However, you should pick above the fingerboard and not in the places where there is the colophony on the chords. You can demand everything from the jazz violin, its resonance will never let you down. And the more I play it the better it sounds!

The jazz violin and the Neolin deserve being presented to the greater public and being considered as independent bowed instruments.

The jazz violin has its firm place in my lessons and I use it to explain things to my pupils which they can understand easier in this way – consequently I gain time and my pupils build up confidence.

This is a new approach towards violin pedagogic and a new kind of motivating my pupils to detect the new sound possibilities offered by this beautiful instrument.