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Message:: [QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 4396709, member: 55"]Right, Charlie; and not only is it hard to get the sound-post in, but the exact position for it is very important, and very hard for a non-expert to get exactly right - the sound of a Stradivarius could be ruined by a sound-post that is a few millimeters out of position.My first violin was a Goodwill special bought by my parents; years later, when I had my good 1797 violin appraised I brought the first one in also....I'd always been intrigued by the odd tone it had.The pros told me that the top had been thinned down by an amateur in an attempt to improve the tone, thinned so far that the tone was damaged; and that the sound-post was actually in the wrong place.  But they didn't want to move it, reasoning that likely the amateur had tried several positions and had probably found the best spot to balance out the poor tone caused by the thinned top...their final opinion was "worth around $300, with an unusual harsh tone unsuited for classical music but possibly acceptable in country music."It worked for me when I was in Junior High, and certainly worth the $20 my parents had paid long ago....but after that, no. And of course there is no way to remedy an over-thinned top.[/QUOTE]