The best beginner cellos to buy

The cello is not an easy instrument to play, it’s not an instrument to cut corners on. Hopefully this blog points you in the right direction and highlights 3 of the best beginner cellos to buy.

It’s big, it’s daunting, there are no frets on the fingerboard to help you play in tune. It’s definitely a challenge. That said it’s a great instrument to play, there are paybacks!
It’s got a great sound and range. It’s the instrument that most imitates the human voice. Some of the best music ever written is for the cello including Bach’s cello suites and Elgar’s cello concerto. So nice on the ears, rich, warm, comforting, immensely rewarding, endlessly intriguing.

Stentor Student 2

Stentor make great beginner cellos, teachers love and recommend them. They are our best selling cellos by some distance.

The Stentor student 2 is hand carved from selected tonewoods. Solid spruce top, maple back and sides with a maple neck and with the advantage of hardwearing ebony pegs and fingerboard. It comes with a good student wood bow with ebony frog and rope core strings and fitted with an alloy tailpiece and integral adjusters.

The outfit comes complete with a lightweight gigbag with accessory pockets and carrying straps.

What with the quality of the selected tonewoods – solid maple and spruce, coupled with the build quality, ebony pegs and fingerboard. I honestly can’t think of any bad points to this cello, possibly the best beginner cello to buy.

Stentor Student 1

The Stentor Student 1 is hand carved from selected tonewoods. It has a solid spruce top, maple back and sides with a maple neck and with pau rosa pegs and an ebonised straight grained fingerboard. It comes with a good student wood bow with ebony frog and Stentor’s own factory strings.

The outfit comes complete with a lightweight gigbag with accessory pockets and carrying straps. It is fitted with an alloy tailpiece and integral adjusters.

Reasons to buy… Made from solid maple and spruce, the pegs are good quality hardwood, pau rosa and also the price. It’s hard to find something so well made at this price and that makes it one of the best beginner cellos to buy!

Primavera 200 Cello

The Primavera 200 cello is like a well kept secret. It doesn’t sell as well as the more popular Stentor cellos, but, those that play it, students and teachers, rightly think of it as a excellent student cello.
Despite being labelled up as Primavera this cello is in a different bracket than the Primavera 90 and 100 cellos. It’s actually made by Eastman Strings at their Chinese factory. Eastman Strings who normally specialise in higher end cellos and violins applying their expertise to the student market and coming up with a winner.
It looks, feels, plays and moreover sounds like it is made from high quality cuts of wood, and what’s more, it is.

Spruce top, maple back and sides, ebony fingerboard, pegs and nut. This is no production line cello. Using virtually no power tools these cellos are crafted by hand with chisels, knives, gouges, and scrapers. Modern instruments made using centuries old methods. Try it you won’t be disappointed.

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The best beginner cellos to buy

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3 of the best cellos to buy for beginners.

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Ian Fielding