Mark Wood Custom Stingray 4-String with Barbera Pickup

The Sabre and the Stingray offer the best value for todays modern violinist. Whether you are a beginning string student or a professional musician, these violins make the transition to an electric solid body seamless. These sleek and beautiful instruments deliver outstanding tone and the necessary "punch" for live performances. As an enhancement to their design, there is a slight symmetrical curve to each side of the body of both the Sabre and Stingray. They each come with a custom-made pegbox and chin rest (shoulder pad not included).

FRETS
Play two to three note chords like a guitar without compromising the beautiful subtleties of an acoustic violin fingerboard. All slides and bends associated with the violin still apply with frets (we file the frets lower on the D, A, E string side). Also, with frets, the player can explore many pizzicato sounds and pick-like guitar styles. (Note: All violins are also available fretless.) Be sure to select finish, color and hardware options! (Hardware option only available for Viper and Cobra. Hardware includes tuning gears, input jack, strap hardware, and volume knob)

PICKUPS
The Viper, Sabre, and Stingray all come stock with an in-house pickup included, with the exception of 7-string models which utilize the Barbera pickup (we encourage using a pre-amp with the in-house). For an additional charge, we recommend the Barbera transducer bridge pickup, which has a piezo pickup under each string and produces sounds ranging from heavy metal/thrash to classical, jazz, and clean "acoustic sounding" music with great success.

SPECIFICATIONS
Body - poplar wood
Fingerboard - select ebony
Pegs - Perfection Pegs
Strings - custom Super-Sensitive
Pickups - In-House or Barbera
Chinrest - ebony
Tailpiece - Thomastik
Frets or fretless - 4 & 5-string