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Today I will tell you some about VIOLIN
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| Acoustic and Electric Violin |
Violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello. The violin is sometimes informally called a fiddle, regardless of the type of music played on it.
A person who makes or repairs violins is called a luthier. Someone who plays the violin is called a violinist or a fiddler. The violinist produces sound by drawing a bow across one or more strings (which maybe stopped by the fingers of the other hand to produce a full range of pitches), by plucking the strings, or by a variety of other techniques. The violin is played by musicians in a wide variety of musical genres, including baroque music, classical, jazz, folk music, and rock and roll.
Construction and Mechanics
A violin is divided into sections: violin body, neck violin, viola bridge, finger board, strings, and various auxiliary devices. Auxiliary devices include a tuner pegs for each string, violin tail to hold the strings, pins and straps to hold the tail of a violin, some additional adjustment to the tail of the violin when needed, and a buffer chin. (Buffer chin can be incorporated with a violin or tail mounted on the left.)
The purfling running around the edge of the spruce top provides some protection against cracks originating at the edge.
The neck is usually maple with a flamed figure compatible with that of the ribs and back. It carries the fingerboard, typically made of ebony, but often some other wood stained or painted black. Ebony is the preferred material because of its hardness, beauty, and superior resistance to wear.
The tailpiece anchors the strings to the lower bout of the violin by means of the tailgut, which loops around an ebony button called the tailpin
Bows
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| Bows, top to bottom : violin - viola - cello |
A violin is usually played using a bow consisting of a stick with a ribbon of horse hair. A typical violin bow may be 75 cm overall. At the frog end, a screw adjuster tightens or loosens the hair. Just forward of the frog, a leather thumb cushion and winding protect the stick and provide a strong grip for the player's hand.
The winding may be wire (often silver or plated silver), silk, or whalebone (now imitated by alternating strips of tan and black plastic.) Some student bows (particularly the ones made of solid fiberglass) substitute a plastic sleeve for grip and winding.
Hair that is used for violin bows is usually taken from male white horse tail hair (his hair has always been colored white gold), although the arcs are cheaper to use synthetic fiber. If diligently rubbed with violin bows with rosin will make the grip bow to the strings become more stable and controlled, and can help to vibrate.
Strings
Strings made from sheep gut, stretched, dried, and then twisted. At one point it was found that gut strings can be developed by way of mixed metals. Results obtained from this process are the strings that are stronger and more balanced, and therefore more dense can be set with greater pressure, resulting in larger volumes as well. Compared with the widely used synthetic strings now, gut strings have a warmer sound, like a singing voice. The string are G-D-A-E.
Sizes
Children typically use smaller violin instruments than adults. Apart from full-size (4/4) violins, 3/4, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/10, 1/16, and even 1/32-sized instruments exist. Finely made fractional sized violins, especially smaller than 1/2 size, are extremely rare or non-existent.
To determine a suitable size violin used by a child, usually the children were told to hold a violin and his hands had to reach down to the roll of the head of the violin. Some teachers also recommend a smaller size is better.
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| Violin 1/16 and 4/4 size |
