With a mute attached you can hook up the headphones and get some good practice in while being quiet.

for the money this a good practice violin, everything works as it should.

The Cecilio is a good violin for beginners (I think) for those accustomed to the sound of acoustics you may want to look at the Shar electric models when considering a silent practice instrument

This is a good practice violin for playing when you don't want to be too loud.

Sure, the sound is different and the way you produce it is also different, but it may be more interesting for kids to play this instrument than the real one (may be especially cool if you have old guitar amp sitting around doing nothing).Somebody mentioned that it is nice for quiet practicing

for the money this a good practice violin, everything works as it should.

My biggest complaint is that I've never been able to get as much volume as I'd like out of the electronics, whether connected to headphones or an amplifier.

The A string and E string fine tuners were really loose and I had to reset them

The strings really are the core of an instrument; the rest is just amplification and reverb, and even these are sold separately on an electric instrument.(Incidentally, be sure to put the little parchment tone-filter from the nice new E string so that it sits on the bridge, or the wire will slice through it over time, like an ultra-slow-motion cheese-cutter