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String Instruments
String instruments are any instruments which produce sound by vibrating strings. Many instruments belong in this family, including: banjos, cellos, double basses, guitars, violas, and violins. Questions about these instruments belong here.
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How much is an antonio vivaldi violin worth?
From 1997 to about 2003 they were imported by a firm in Los Angeles and they were pretty good violins. They were hand crafted from mahogany but the violins vary depending on the person that made them. Some are much better then others.
On the bottom end you'll get a student model that is probably worth around $500-$600, which is what they sold for. Some of them were exceptional and worth several hundred more.
I am judging this based on about 1,000 violins that I personally set up and made ready for market. I made a habit of collecting the best of them for myself and reselling them because of all the china violins, they were about the best, low cost violin out there.
If you are buying one today (2012) and can find one from 10 years back or more, you're probably going to get a really great instrument. Be sure that all the joinery is together and that there is no warping. If the instrument as been taken care of, the wood will have dried out nicely by now and the instrument will be worth at least what it was worth new.
The smaller sizes are also very nice instruments compared to most smaller violins. Any small violin will sound more like a box then a violin so don't expect the world. Once you get down to 1/4 or smaller, you're really buying an instrument that is a fingering trainer more then a sound maker. In the case of the small instruments, be sure the action is set correctly and don't spend more then $200 on any instrument. Originally, the Vivaldi 1/4 and 1/8 etc were about $350 new. They were probably worth it but used I would suggest you don't pay more then $150-$200 condition dependent.
The Antonio Vivaldi violins are not the only good violin made in China. The name is not what you are looking for. You're looking for the quality of the wood and how the instrument resinates. Play the thing and if it sounds like a good violin, it probably is. The glue used these days usually holds together forever. The real problem with cheap violins are the bows. Get a quality bow and most violins will sound ok.
That being said, there are a flood of garbage violins on the market that are priced $200 and under at places like musiciansfriend.com and similar. Those should be avoided by all but the families that just can't afford anything else. They make sound but its not a good one. They don't have the action to train fingers and the bows are worthless. For $200, you can't expect much - and you won't get it either.
What is the first lesson in violin?
There are tutorials how to play the violin. You can purchase the cds online and one of the sites offering this is http://play-violin.net. You can play like a master in due time.
How do guitar strings vibration echo?
if you where to lift the fretboard up off the guitar you'll see a hollow shaft other than a truss rod which keeps the neck straight and of course the necks wood. Theres that and of course the body of the guitar itself , with a floating tremolo (floyd rose, whammy bar system) its hollow and can echo a lot more.
so sound waves bouncing around inside of the guitar.
You really should not do this.
Instead take it to a violin repair person and get their opinion if the instrument's value will go down if you refinish it yourself.
If they tell you it is a low value then go ahead and do it. The odds are you have a factory made violin that was mass-produced and is low quality. But there is always the chance that it might be a better quality instrument that has fallen into disrepair and refinishing it would kill the chance of selling it for what it is worth.
Hope that this helps.
How much do violin lessons cost?
As a violin teacher, I will happily say, Not Enough!!
It really does depend on your form of employment, whether peripatetic or full time post in a school/conservatoire. Also whether you are employed by a company (such as a supplier of peri teachers) or a state/LEA.
The musicians union rate for instrumental teaching is around £25.00 an hour minimum, but as the MU is really a toothless tiger, we often have to accept much lower rates when not working as self employed.
Most violin teachers will not make more than £13,000 - £15,000 PA from teaching (and that is on the highest end) but the majority of us do other work to supplement our income such as performing in pit orchestras, quartets, chamber ensembles etc.
There are exceptions to this, some of the greatest performers also offer lessons, when it comes to rates for these few, the sky is the limit.
(I)t depends on what (yo)u demand, how good (yo)u are, or where (yo)u work. private lessons usually are 35-40 dollars for an hour and 14 to 20 dollars for a half an hour.
My name is Michael Sanchez and I am a full-time teacher in Michigan. I don't have any sort of teaching degree, but did go to school for business (didn't graduate). I started off advertising online and began starting to get about 85% of my students from ads online. I now have about 65 private students and also have 2 other teachers that are working for me teaching violin. I charge $25/half hour and $45/hour although I started with lower rates. I have certainly mastered the art of teaching by balancing a lot of elements to keep students interested and very importantly staying organized. I have a very detailed spreadsheet where I keep track of all students. My current income from just teaching alone grossed about 65K this year.
I also run a website where I sell DVDs about learning to play violin and online memberships. The website is located at http://www.violintutorpro.com. I am currently making about 2.5K a month on this site. So in total my violin business is making about 80K/year, and I project this to grow over 6 figures next year!
Where do you go to find out how much violins are worth?
Hard to tell without a picture. Try ValueJockey.com it is free. you can post a picture there and get pricing help. Good Luck!!!
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The only good way is to take it to a violin shop to get it appraised. Pictures can only tell part of the story, condition can make a big difference.
Dave Lashof
What is the name of the stick which is used to play the violin?
First of all its NOT called a stick its called a bow it is the source of sound fora violin.
Which musical string instrument would you associate with India?
The two main musical instruments associated with India would be the sitar and tablas. Together these instruments resonate the serenity of Indian music.
A sitar is a string instrument containing about 18-20 strings (11-13 sympathetic strings, 6-7 playing strings). It is the melodic emblem of Indian classical music. It is still pervasive in Indian music.
The tablas are the percussions of Indian classical music. There are two hand played drums. The bigger of the two emits a low bass type sound and the smaller a higher snare type sound. If the sitar is the melodic emblem, the tablas are the rhythmic ones.
These instruments are among the oldest in the world. The advent of synthetic music has taken over most of the new age Indian songs, but every now and then Indian music producers like to remind themselves and the Indians of their culture by including classical music that undoubtedly still in everyone's hearts.
How many Gibson F5 mandolins were made in 1969?
Apparently only 1700 Gibson Les Paul Standards were made in 1959. These guitars are probably the most sought after guitars in the world, so if you have one, get it checked out for authenticity. If it's an original it could be worth upwards of £200000
Performing arts
The musical instruments found among the Mangyan are the gitara, a homemade guitar; the gitgit, a three-string indigenous violin with human hair for strings; the lantoy, a transverse nose flute; the kudyapi, a kind of lute; and the kudlung, a parallel-string bamboo tube zither. Most of these instruments are used by a male suitor in wooing a Mangyan female. A young man and his male friends strum the guitar and play the gitgit to announce their arrival at the house of the woman. The Hanunoo use the guitar to play harmonic chords and interludes between verses sung in one or two tones.
The Hanunoo use several kinds of flute. The transverse flute has five stops (unlike the Buhid's palawta which has six), and is tuned diatonically. The pituh is a flute which is diatonically tuned, has finger-holes, but no thumb hole. The bangsi is an external duct flute, which has a chip glued on to the tube of the flute. Another type of aerophone, aside from the flutes, is the budyung, a bamboo trumpet which is also found among the Mandaya in Mindanao.
Two idiophones are used by the Hanunoo: the buray dipay, a bean-pod rattle used in ensemble with other kinds of instruments , and the kalutang, which are percussion sticks played in pairs to produce harmonies on seconds, thirds, and fourths (Maceda 1966: 646).
The Hanunoo also have an agung ensemble, which consists of two light gongs played by two men squatting on the floor: one man beats with a light padded stick on the rim of one of the gongs. Both performers play a simple duple rhythms (Maceda 1966: 646).
Music for the Hanunoo is part of celebrating ordinary and festive occasions. Accompanying themselves on these instruments as they recite their love poems, the Hanunoo Mangyan pay court to the women. During the wedding rituals, songs are sung, musical instruments are played, food is eaten, and wine is drunk. The songs of the Mangyan are lullabies, recollections of war exploits in the distant past, lamentations, lovelyrics, and stories based on persona.
Five families of musical instruments?
1. Strings
2. Brass
3. Wood winds
4. Percussion
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Do people know how to play a violin?
Yes....... Come on I hope you worded this wrong cause yeah alot of people know how
What instrument is next in pitch above the cello?
In the violin family, the next in pitch above the cello is the viola.
The cello is the bass of the violin family. The violin itself is the soprano, and the alto is the viola. There have been tenors made of this family from time to time, but they are not in any way standard instruments and are usually called by the name tenor violin.
Why it is important to look after musical instruments?
It would be important so that it plays properly.
What is the antonym for violin?
A violist is someone that plays the viola. There isn't really the opposite of that other than someone that doesn't play the viola.
Is the violin easyer to play than the double bass?
Not really none are really easier than others, string instruments are harder to play than other families because they require a good ear which is useful for instance so you can tell if a note is the right pitch, to sharp, or to flat. you will find with any string instrument that the fattest string will be the hardest string to get a good sound from which is why there are different bows for each instrument.
My violin teacher recently advised me to switch to viola because i have really big hands (and I'm proud of it, etc). So maybe if you have small hands (short fingers) you should play a smaller instrument and if you have large hands (long fingers) you should play a larger instrument.
ORDER OF STRING INSTRUMENTS smallest > largest
Violin
Viola
Cello
Double Bass
What Materils is the Violin made out of?
A violin has many parts. The body is made out of wood which is most often Maple. The fingerboard, chin-rest and pegs are made out of Ebony. The strings themselves can be made out of a type of metal such as copper. I found the following website to be helpful: http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Violin.html I hope this information helps!
What is the functions of banjo in simple orchestra?
The modern banjo was invented in America in the late 1800s so it didn't exist at the time when the traditional concept of an orchestra was being developed.
The banjo was derived from African instruments made of dried gourds, which were essentially drums with strings pulled taut. Compositions for orchestras tended not to score for localised indigenous instruments, unless the composer was looking for a "particular" sound.
That said, there's no reason it couldn't hold its own in an orchestra with its unique, sharp, and precise tones. Some banjo virtuosos such as Bela Fleck have performed and recorded classical compositions with great accuracy on the banjo.
What string instruments uses the alto clef?
Viola does-- if u know how to read treble its not that hard just add one... ex.
on treble the center line is B on alto clef just add one letter from the alphabet-- the middle line is C. if you play viola its pretty simple too because Middle C is Literally on the Middle!
- im an orch dork (:
How do string instruments produce sound?
the string is either plucked, strummed, or drawn on with a bow. When this happens sound/notes are produced, although not very loudly. they amplify the sound with the body of the instrument, which acts as a resonator, thus amplifying and prolonging the note.
When two notes are played at the same time on strings what is this called?
A chord.
Playing a Cnote an Enote and a Gnote simultaneously will give you a C chord.
How much does a truly authentic Hofner violin bass cost in USD?
You can find an authentic Hofner Violin Bass at its lowest for $369.00 new at musiciansfriend.com. The most expensive one they offer is $2,975.00. They range in price between those. The $369.00 is your basic Hofner Violin Bass that has the Paul McCartney look, with the authentic Hofner feel, and great playability.
Why is horse hair used for bows?
According to history there is not a single inventor of the violin bow. A wildly held theory is the instrument (violin) and bow originated from the hunters bow.
At any rate, the earliest records showing the use of the bow in Europe are found in sculptures and art work from about 1,000 A.D.
It is believed that the bow as we know it today just evolved over a period of many many years. The things that players wanted "were more bow length" "and could the hair be a bit wider?" "could a better system be developed to regulate hair tension?" "maybe a little more weight."
All of these things and more were over time incorporated into the ultimate bow design.
Along came Francois Tourte b.1747--d.1835 in Paris, France. He has been termed the "Stradivarius of the bow", Tourte is considered the father of the bow we use today.
As far as horse hair is concerened, it mostly comes from the tail of the horse. Horse hair is used because it has microscopic barbs that hold the rosin. Horse hair comes from Mongolia, Siberia, China, and Argentina. It is cultivated for this exact purpose.
The hair harvesters wash the hair many times, sort and grade the hair by thickness. The hair is either bleached or left natural, it is then put into one pound bundles. A violin bow requires about 200--250 hairs per bow. There is no indication that other substances had ever been used, but I have a feeling that many things were tried before horse hair won the race
Which part of piano vibrate to produce sound?
The felt hammer strikes the strings, creating the note that those strings are tuned to. The vibrations of the string are transmitted through the metal bridge to the soundboard, which the bridge is bolted to. The spruce soundboard amplifies the sound. When you let go of the key, a felt damper drops onto the strings, silencing them.
