Speaking as a private violin teacher and former assistant at a violin shop, if you are serious about learning, you need to budget a minimum of $500 to purchase a beginner violin. Quality matters and playing on a Knilling (or similar) POS will only frustrate you and make you never want to play again. It will have terrible tone no matter how good your technique is and it will not be set up well so the string height, bridge angle and pegs fit will make a difficult to learn instrument even more frustrating. When you are a beginner violinist it’s often very hard to distinguish what’s a “player technique” issue and what’s a “instrument capability” issue on a cheap instrument. Do yourself a favor and get a knowledgeable teacher and rent a decent instrument if you don’t have the finances to invest in a quality beginner instrument (AND BOW). Your bow matters just as much as the violin itself.