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A violin works just like every other string instrument, so this applies to all of them. The bow, which is pulled across the strings, is made most often of horsehair. Because the horse hair is coarse, it catches on the strings. Rosin is used to help it catch, as rosin is sticky. The bow pulls across the string, causing it to vibrate. When you place a finger down, you shorten the string, causing the vibration to get smaller and higher. The strings are stretched across a wooden structure called a bridge. It connects the strings to the body, so the vibrations can be amplified within in. There are also sound posts withing the violin, under the bridge, to help transfer the vibrations to the back of the violin, so the sound coats the entirety of the violin. The sound is then released through the F-holes, and also straight from the string. That is about how a violin works. There is a lot more physics involved, but very complicated.

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Violins are able to make sound through a vibration process. The action of pulling a rosined bow, a wooden stick strung with special horse hair that is rubbed with a chalk-like material called rosin, across the different sized strings of a violin. The wire strings are each of different widths, G being the thickest, D the next, A the second thinnest, and E the thinnest. The thicker the string, the lower the note. The incredibly tiny "hooks" or "bumps" on each hair of the bow catches and rubs against the string, causing it to vibrate and resonate a sound through the hollow body according to the appropriate tightness of the string. By placing fingers on the string, the length of the string is changed, therefore different notes are sounded. It works just like pulling a rubber band and plucking it and then pushing it down halfway across and hearing a much higher note when you pluck it again.

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when the string is plucked, it vibrates. the vibrating string also causes the surrounding air to vibrate creating sound.

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The bow sliding across the strings causes them to vibrate and the sound volume is increased by the resonance produced by the hollow shape of the violin's body.

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The bow makes the string vibrate and the vibration produces a sound.

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You have to have the violin body, violin strings, bow, and other various objects to help keep up your violin including rosin.

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The strings of the violin

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