Perhaps you could buy it on the installment plan? Put money down before you leave and pay the rest over three months or something?
Could probably do that. But she's not asking much for it...if all goes well, I'll easily be able to pay for it.
If she doesn't decide she's too sentimentally attached to it, that is. It was her first fiddle, though it doesn't get played that much any more since she has a better one.