Buying a second violin

It was January,2006
I was looking at internet auction cite, I didn't have any specific desire then. I was just looking vilin section. Then I found an old violin which is made in Japan. It had no strings, no pegs. And its backside was little bit splitted from rib. Yeah, it was a junk
violin.
I felt "Maybe I can fix it."even though I had never done such a thing!
I had a feeling.
And according to the seller this violin was made by Masakichi Suzuki around WW2. It means it's already about 60y.o.
Hmmm... I want it!!
Masakichi Suzuki is a founder of Suzuki Violin co.ltd. And he made many many good violins when he started his business in
(about)1890s. (I'm not sure the exact time, but I mean it started about 100years ago.) That violin was reaaaally cheap! It was just 100$. I was wondering "Violins are such a cheap items?" Hehehe.


Anyway I was happy to get this violin. Because my first violin was made in 2004, it's still really new. And I wanted to try an "old" violin. (actually it's not even old. 60y.o. is still modern) These two violins are pretty different. As soon as I got the second violin, I set up pegs and strings. I was really impatient to play this violin so much!

I put DOMINANTE on this violin, and played...
...
oooooohhh, it sounds interestiiing.
I felt like the sound was really different from my 1st violin. But actually I think at that time i didn't have enough sence of hearing real good sound. Since I was still just a beginner then. But I was pretty happy to play this violin. Even though it was
lowest rank violin of Masakichi Suzuki.(It had a name of Masakichi Suzuki No.A. This No.A is sopposed to be out of rank 60 years ago.)

(There's no flame on its back nor on neck!)

I brought this violin to the lesson and showed to my teacher.
She said "Actually if you fix this splitted part, it might be better."
Yeh, that's right. Because I hadn't fixed that part. I was playing with one side of back(belly) opened. So much vibration and
sound were escaping from the big space.

The next work should be fixing this split...