This may be too much for a student, however the sound quality is an amazing fact of motivation I could see in my son since he started to play it. It's mind blowing to see a 7 years old kid performing in a concert with this violin. It's also quite tough built, it dropped down twice so far and no scratch. The case it came with is AS-90/560-V, much nicer than the one in the picture. And the bow is AS-34, really high quality.