In the past, Ifshin Violins as well as most other major violin shops  have been happy to offer our extensive expertise and experience to do  insurance appraisals, not just for those who have purchased instruments  and bows from them. Today, we still provide appraisals for those  instruments and bows purchased from our shop, but at this time we have  reduced the number of written insurance appraisals on any instruments or  bows not purchased from our shop. Many other violin shops and experts  have made the same decision.  We regret having to do this, but there are  a number of important reasons for it.

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