String Instruments

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The question is odd, since the viola da braccio (the 'arm viol') preceded the Orchestra by centuries.

The term 'viola' has been used for stringed instruments played by a bow, whether held on the shoulder or lap (oriented with the arm, therefore viola da braccio) or held vertically, resting on the calves, or thighs for smaller instruments (therefore viola da gamba), and the earliest iconic evidences of viola-sized instruments, played with a bow and held on the shoulder with f-shaped sound holes and the characteristic scroll, date back to the 1534-5 frescoes of the Sanctuary of Soranno dome.

However, the viola in the strict f-holes and scroll sense, is preceded by close relatives, known as vielles (for which an absolute data is not known.

Certainly, violas (as 'alto violins') were known to Michael Praetorius, who documented them with engravings and string-pitch and range notation in his 1620 Theatrum Musicum, part of his Syntagma Musicum.

In actual fact, the question is beggared by the word "Orchestra". In Italy, the term originally meant a place, not the organization. During the Baroque era, the first group that might have been called an Orchestra in France, the Vingt-Quatre Violons Du Roi, consisted of six Violins and six Bass de Violon (likely to have been Violone or perhaps the 3-stringed bass that persisted into Beethoven's orchestras) and six violas on each of three inner parts (which would have made the ensemble much more sonorous and listenable than 24 violins, alone, might have been!) All of this before the 18th Century even began.

So really, there is no question of the viola joining the orchestra: by the time the term changed from referring to the place where the ensemble sat to the instrumentalists and their instruments, the viola was as entrenched as the violin. Why would this be?

Essentially, the instruments of the Renaissance tended to be made in families. We see this behavior still today, since Adolphe Sax chose to invent his eponymous Saxophones in a family of interleaved sizes pitched in Bb and Eb; likewise, the Clarinets have adopted that sizing and those pitches. Recorders come in Soprano and Tenor, pitched in C, and Sopranino, Alto, and Bass pitched in F. The violin family instruments were created on much the same principal, although with a few exceptions, the job of tenor and alto is taken by the viola alone: The violin is pitched a fifth above the viola, the cello is an octave below the viola, and the adept string player of Praetorius' time was expected to be able to read treble, bass, and the C clefs on any line with equal facility. This means that any violinist or violist could easily trade instruments (or carry both), and with some acclimation, play cello as well... and bass, although the bass's size is immense by comparison to the cello, and it was tuned in fourths (like the viols and violone).

So separating the viola from the violins was conceptually as foreign as the modern concept of an experienced driver being unable to switch from a luxury car to a sub-compact!

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there are 360 players playing in the current basketball but that all varies from time to time

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The practice of crucifixion was taken by the Romans from Carthage.

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Pianos, and harpsichords are both stringed instruments. When a key is pressed on a piano, a hammer hits one of they many strings hidden in the body. In contrast, harpsichords are plucked when keys are pressed.

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You should always have a violin kept at room temperature. Never too hot or too cold just like you would like it! You should never leave your violin in the car or especially outside, doing so will damage your violin and will get very expensive after taking it to a music store to get it fixed. You should always have your violin with you when your in the house just to know it will be safe when you leave the house you should keep it in a space you have already figured out for your violin to be it's home. I hope this helps and that you love your instrument!

Bandurria has 12 strings .. Some are 14 but 12 is the common number of strings in Bandurria

1. The Tuba uses a mouthpiece which uses the lips for amplification and, with more experience, can bring out lower and lower notes depending on the experience of the player. If the Tuba did not use a mouth piece then it would have a set range. Because of the mouth piece the tubas range is virtually unlimited. Plus the bigger the mouth piece the bigger the range, and the tuba has the biggest mouth piece of the brass family.

2. Along with this potential for range the Tuba has many feet of tubing making its range center very low. It is the largest wind instrument so lots of tubing.

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Sir Albert Einstein's mother was the one who tried to get him to play the violin. I play the violin and I am very good at Science, the two go together in intelligence and consentration and theory. His mother thought he was mentally retarded so she tried to get him to play the violin to share a normal hobby as alot of children played the violin in the 19th century in Germany. Albert enjoyed playing Bach and Mozart as a child, I am not sure he went far in it as an adult, but he did have a club as an adolesence in which he would play violin to his friends. So this is why Albert Enstein played the violin.

***I would like to correct some information that was listed here. Albert Einstein did indeed play the violin. However, it was the school teachers who told Einstein's parents that he was "too stupid to learn". Albert's mother then had him begin violin lessons. He did continue to play up to and throughout his adult years. Below is an excellent link about not only Einstein but also the affects of music and the brain.

http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n15/mente/musica.html

He was the maker of the world's most expensive violins.

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The greatest banjo player in Bluegrass music is Earl Scruggs. So, that would be my guess to your question.