A violin you can see through
Commissioned from a luthier you only find by word of mouth. A six-month waitlist. An instrument that exists nowhere else.
The storyBuilt for one reason.
A wedding happens once. A product reveal happens once. There is no second take, so the sound cannot fail, and it cannot be approximate.
That is what this instrument was commissioned for. Through its transparent body run eight microphones, seeded at the points where the sound is born: under the strings, along the body, at the bridge. Every note, every intensity, every breath of the bow is captured at the source and reproduced through professional amplification exactly as she plays it.
Played in daylight, it disappears into the music. Played in the dark, it glows: cool blue-violet or warm gold, an instrument made of light.
An instrument guests look through.
By day, the transparency does something quietly disarming: your guests watch the bow move and see the room through the instrument — nothing hidden, nothing between the music and them. It reads as craft, not gadget.
After dark it becomes the room's centerpiece. Lit from within, it draws every eye to the exact spot the evening needs them: the processional, the first dance, the reveal. It is the object your guests will ask about at dinner, and the one they will film when the floor opens.
Captured at the source.
Because the microphones live inside the body, there is no distance between her playing and your room: no stage micing, no feedback hunt, no guesswork. One clean line into your venue's system — or into her own concert-grade rig where there is none — with levels settled at soundcheck, before your guests arrive.
The same instrument that holds a vow at whisper level can lift a dance floor an hour later. That range is the entire point: one artist, one setup, the whole arc of the day.
She plays light. And wears it.
Made to her measure by a Paris couturier: a dress woven with hundreds of points of light that answer the music: brighter as the piece rises, softer as it breathes, shifting from blue to violet to gold.
Together, the glowing violin and the dress of light are a performance no one else in New York can give, and the reason her evening sets end up on every guest's phone.
About the instrument.
QuestionsIs it a real violin?
Yes — four strings and a bow, played exactly as a classical violin is played. The difference is the body: transparent, custom-built, with eight microphones seeded inside it. What you hear is her playing itself, amplified — not an effect.
What does it actually sound like?
Every nuance is captured at the source — under the strings, along the body, at the bridge — and reproduced with nothing lost. The proof is one click away: her recording of Einaudi's “Experience” was captured straight through the instrument's own microphones.
Can it play a quiet ceremony?
Yes. The sound scales from ceremony-soft — under the vows, never over them — to a full dance floor. One instrument covers the whole arc of the day.
What about outdoors — a beach, a garden, a tent?
Where a venue has a sound system, a simple technical rider makes the violin plug-and-play. Where there is none, she brings and runs her own concert-grade sound.
Does she only play the transparent violin?
No. A classical violin travels with her too — cocktail hour and dinner often belong to it — and the transparent violin takes over when the evening turns to the show.
Hear it: the recording captured through its own microphones. Watch it at real weddings: unedited films. The full show: the electric violinist page.