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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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What is the value of a Gibson SG Goddess?
Hehe.... if you have to ask, then you can't afford it :-)
Seriously, though, they're worth about $1200, depending on year, new/secondhand, etc.
But don't pay any more than that, unless you're buying it off Eric Clapton, and you also get a photograph of him signing it for you :-)
Can you play a violin as a fiddle?
Yes you can. Essentially the only difference between a fiddle and a violin is that the fiddle has a slightly flatter bridge for the heightened ability to hit multiple strings at once.
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Where did the strings originate?
Western Civilization has a few origin stories for strings: the Greeks claim it was discovered, rather than being invented, by Orpheus, who found a turtle shell with sinew from the no-longer-resident turtle, which emitted a pleasing note when plucked. (This bit of tradition lead the Renaissance lutenists to associate their lute with the turtle, in naming and often in symbology.)
The Bible is silent on the origin of strings, while assigning Jabal (son of Lamech, son of Cain, son of Adam) as "the Father (Ancestor) of all who play the harp and flute." This would place the invention of strings before the Flood, leaving the possibility of re-invention post-flood.
China, while not claiming an invention time or individual for the actual strings, claims impressive ages for certain instruments (as much as 35,000 years).
It is quite likely that strings developed in many places at many times, based on observation of the nature of things. The Chinese Ch'in (long zither) type instruments appear to have developed from bamboo zithers, perhaps from a realization that the tongue of a note-bar can be replaced by a single thread or twisted aggregation of fibers. The earliest existing examples of Chinese harps and zithers are strung with twisted silk strings. In Western civilization, where silk (and the worms which produce it) were unknown until Marco Polo, used gut (serosa from sheep, primarily), twisted and dried, for strings into antiquity, and may have started using sinews of animals (as the Orphean Myth claims).
It is unlikely that we will ever know where the first strings were made, who had the idea, and what caused them to do so: whether to replace existing, naturally-occurring strings like animal sinew, or as a byproduct of spun thread, or from some other no-longer-imaginable cause.
What is the violin music playing in the Dow Human Element commercial?
The violin music in "The Human Element" commercial containing the periodic table is William Walton's "Touch Her Sweet Lips and Part". It is from the film score for the 1940's film of Shakespeare's Henry V. You can hear the entire piece on YouTube.
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How do you fix a violin string?
Firstly, bent the tip of the string slightly so that it can "hook" or anchor on the peg. Next, place the end of the string into the bottom hole where the fine-tuners are. Turn the peg clockwise, until the note is reached. Make sure that the string is on the bridge, and in its respective positions.
What are the different guitars?
Well there are a lot of different guitars but the main 3 tops are acoustic, electric guitar and a bass guitar.
A chin rest allows the violinist or violist to hold their instrument more easily. Both these instruments are held not with the left hand, as it may appear to an observer, but between the left shoulder and the chin. The hand must be free to move up and down the instrument so that the musician can change positions quickly and freely. The chin rest generally makes the instrument easier to grip with the chin, but some musicians may prefer to play without one.
What education do you need for a violin teacher?
Research has shown that, in general, the best players make the best teachers. Many of the best players will be found in professional orchestras, conservatories, and universities. There are fine players who have made a specialty of teaching. It really helps to know the training of the teacher. In the USA, the vast majority of professional musicians and teachers come from a "baker's dozen" of conservatories and schools of music.
There is another element. The teacher has to have given thought to a systematic pedagogy. Usually one has to study it. Most people have heard of the Suzuki method, it is only as good as the teacher teaching it. There is a certification process. My opinion is that it is a good pedagogy, but that it was developed 50 years ago and we have increased our knowledge considerably since then. I believe the pedagogy taught at the Indiana University (Bloomington) String Academy combines the best elements of the last two centuries of violin pedagogy in a beautifully efficient way that helps the student reach their potential in the shortest amount of time (depending on the work they put into it, of course). It's possible to attend their Summer Retreat for Professional Violinists and Violists, or to study it if you are a student at IU (one of the "baker's dozen"). If you're looking for a teacher, then look for a fine professional player who has studied a pedagogy that works, and see if s/he connects with you or your child. If you want to teach, get the finest training you can get. Try and get experience performing and teaching while you still have a mentor teacher.
Good luck!
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Will it be quieter is a violin string is tightened?
If a violin string is tightened, the volume does not change, the note does. If you tighten a string, it gets higher, and if you loosen it, it gets lower.
What are 3 ways to raise the pitch of a string instrument?
Well, you shouldn't really raise the pitch above what it is supposed to be but most stringed instruments have pegs which change the tension of the strings and change the notes.
The banjo is used for EVERY sort of music. It is especially common in Folk, Country, and Bluegrass. The banjo is also very popular in dixieland bands, Jazz-Danny Barker, rock-(the Eagles used a banjo in MANY of their songs,) Christian-Gregor, and even POP!
What is the name of the Atreyu song with the violin in it?
"Bleeding is a Luxury" has a nice violin part that starts at 2:21. I feel that there is another yet my amazing atreyu senses are failing me at the moment.
you can make that sound by sliding your finger on the E string from A upwards rapidly.♫
What does off string mean on sheet music For Violin?
Acording 2 my rudiments book i tink its s'posed 2 B "presing, becoming fasta"
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Can the sound of the violin altered in any way to produce different effects?
The sound of any instrument can be modified in many ways to produce different sounds. The violin is no exception.
Traditional violin playing consists of bowing the strings (arco) and stopping the strings with fingertips to select pitch. The manner of handling the bow itself has changed for the common stroke over the centuries, resulting in a change of the tone and volume-shape of the violin sound, appropriate to changing styles since the Renaissance era. However, the manner of bowing is not a simple back-and-forth smooth operation: many different techniques already cause the violin to emit very different sounds from bouncing the bow on the string to tremolo, where the violinist moves the bow back and forth very quickly, creating a kind of shimmer in the sound.
Back in the Baroque and early Classical era, it wasn't uncommon to have the violinist use the wooden part of the bow on the string to get a pinging effect, and this has survived until the present time. Two most notable uses of the bow in this fashion (called col legno and col legno battuto) are Rossini's overture to Il Signor Bruschino and the graveyard segment of the last movement of Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique. (Most modern violinists, having paid a great deal of money for their bows, will use a wooden dowel, instead!)
Departing from the bow, the violin has always had the ability to be plucked (pizzicato), strummed like a ukulele, etc.
Another technique is harmonics, where the violinist presses very lightly against the string in certain locations, then bows, producing a particularly different tone. This is because their finger is on a 'node', and by stopping the string's motion in that point but letting the rest of the string vibrate on either side of their finger, they are making the string vibrate in subdivisions. For instance, placing the finger lightly at the same point that they would use for the musical forth above the open string's sound, they cut the string into four parts, and the pitch of the note is two octaves above the open string. Placing the finger where the musical fifth sounds normally will cut the string in thirds, producing a note an octave and a fifth above the open string's pitch: these are called harmonics and sound almost like a bird singing or like whistling.
Also in the Classical technique, the use of a mute will change the sound of the Violin. The word mute comes from the Italian muta, changed, and the mute for the violin is a weighted addition to the bridge. The bridge carries the sound of the string to the top plate of the violin, where it causes the body and air-cavity of the instrument to produce the normal sound. By adding the weight to the bridge, the tone of the instrument is changed. The sound is generally quieter than without the mute (causing most people to think that "mute" means "to silence or make quite".)
In modern use of the violin, many avenues for sound-change are available: since the instrument can be easily electronicified by microphone or conductive pickup, the entire battery of electronic sound-amplification and sound-modification available to electric guitar players or synthesists are available to the violinist. Some makers produce entirely-electric violins, which, like solid body electric guitars, produce no sound without added amplification. Additionally, it is possible for a violin's sound to be fed to a synthesizer, modified and played back in real-time with the violin's own sound.
Drum is to beat as banjo is to?
Drum is to beat as banjo is to pick
Drum is to beat as banjo is to strum
Drum is to beat as banjo is to frail
THE PEOPLE WHO MADE VIOLINS WHERE the Italian people. Long ago there ware like three people that made violins in Italy I forgot their names but their violins where the oldest and the best kind in the world. Today these Italian violins cost like :
fifteen thousand million or billion dollars.
those violins are very special as you can see.
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What movie has Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor?
There are many violin concertos in the key of e-minor, but the most famous by far was written by Felix Mendelssohn. His e-minor concerto is one of the standards of the violin repertoire.
What is the hardest classical string instrument to play violin viola cello or bass?
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It can be best answered by saying, all of the string family are hard to play and each present very different challenges of technique, posture and stamina.
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The cello can only be played sitting down, and the other three can be played standing up or sitting down. Also, a full size bass is too big for many people to handle. In terms of technique, beginning violinists seem to have the steepest learning curve, that is, the sounds they make when they first start are the least musical.
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In reference to the above, all of the instruments are played sitting down in an orchestral setting. From experience of teaching both violin and cello, I would say the cello is definitely the harder of the two.
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In reference to the above, they're all difficult in their own way. I disagree that one is more difficult than another; all can be played beautifully with PRACTICE!!!!!!!!
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Yes, in their own way, each instrument is difficult to play. I've been playing viola (which is not a well known instrument) for nearing four years and I never really had much/any trouble learning (I could also probably be able to play violin or possibly cello, but I don't think I could play bass). I think that none of the instruments are any harder to play that the others. The reason I wouldn't be able to play bass is because of the fingerings I'm used to. The bass may look hard, but they usually don't have very complicated parts from what I've seen.
If your looking for an answer to what you should play, then look no farther than what parts you want to play. A violin usually has the main part, cellos and violas play a similar yet different part that the violin and are heard somewhat clearly, basses are probably the hardest to hear, so if you don't want a mess-up to be noticable consider this instrument. However, you will find that each instrument has solos in some pieces. There isn't a strings instrument that never has a solo.
viola may be harder to play but violin is MUCH BETTER!
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I have been playing violin for around 7 or 8 years, and from experience I will say that violin is the hardest instrument to play in the string section. However, I am not saying the instrument itself is just naturally more difficult to play, but the compared to the repertoire for the other string instruments, the repertoire for violin is far more difficult, especially because the violin is responsible for producing many different tones which means a very very high understanding of music is required to play well, and because the violin itself is smaller and thus "capable to perform harder tasks", composers, especially those who do not play violin, tend to write passages that a violin is simply not designed to do. The violin is also smaller, which means controlling your left hand (i.e. intonation, vibrato, etc.) is far more challenging than controlling your left hand on a cello or bass. In conclusion, the violin is the hardest instrument to play because of its size and nature, as well as the repertoire that is written for it. Also, the most challenging classical piece ever, in the eyes of many musicians, is Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs) composed by Sarasate, arguably one of the most gifted violinists ever, because of the degree of intensity and technique required to play this piece to an unworldly level
What is used to make the sound of most string instruments?
To make a sound on a string instrument, you need to vibrate the strings. On violins, violas, cellos, and double basses, you usually use a bow that you draw across the strings, otherwise, there is a technique you use called pizzicato, where you use your finger. On guitar-like instruments (i.e. guitars, banjos, ukuleles, sitars), you can either use your fingers or a pick. On a sitar, you use a wire frame called a plectrum. On ukuleles, you always use your finger.
