ALINA KOSTINA VIOLINS

Alina Kostina is a Russian-born violin maker now living in Seattle, WA. She grew to love the violin through her early childhood music studies. Although the Soviet Union produced many great violinists, it provided its children with appalling violins. For many years of her early life Alina lived in the conviction that violins were made in Moscow Furniture Factory No. 2. Armed with a greenish-yellow fiddle and a color-matched bow, complete with double bass grade hair, 6-year old Alina went to work, bowing hard, hoping one day this repurposed furniture would blossom into a real Strad and the black hair on her bow would turn unicorn white. Needless to say, much rosin was applied in pursuit of the coveted white hair.