The ARS Music intermediate Violin is hand crafted in Luby, Czech Republic. It features a carved spruce top, with maple back, sides and neck. It has an ebony fingerboard, pegs, endpin and chinrest, with a Wittner Ultra tailpiece, and Thomastik-Infeld Dominant strings. It is has a flamed maple back, with a chestnut brown finish. The outfit comes with a high quality oblong case, octagonal bow, and rosin.