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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 highest sounding string instrument?
In a string orchestra, an orchestra with violin, cello, viola, and bass, the bass is the largest and lowest instrument. However, if you were looking for the largest string instrument in a full orchestra, the piano would be the instrument for which you are looking.
What's unique about the violin is that its bow is made out of horse hair. They use the horse's tail hair to make the bow. This question is able to be opinionated. Some people might not think it is unique, yet some may think that's the greatest thing they have ever heard!
What is a Japanese banjo called?
It's called a shamisen. You've probably heard one of these in a Nintendo Wii commercials.
Does it matter if i don't know how to play a violin?
To reader,
It does matter because the piece you play of music you play will sound nothing like it and will sound awfull.
>but if you're not planning on playing a piece, then so what? Play what you like or don't play anything! there's nothing wrong with not being able to play violin, though it would be fun to give it a try!
Besides the strings how can you tell the Violin apart from the Viola?
The cello is a much bigger instrument with a lower range of pitches. It looks the same as the violin (if you ignore the size) but the violin and viola both have a chin rest, and the cello does not. Instead, the cello has an end-pin at the bottom that you stick into the ground.
Basically, they are the same except for the chin rest and the end-pin (and the size, of course).
What is the stick inside a violin called?
The short wooden stick inside a violin, which is wedged between the front and back of a violin - just under the bridge for the strings - is called the sound post.
If the sound post becomes loose - or even falls out through one of the f-shaped sound holes which are cut into the front of the violin - the sound produced by the instrument would be greatly reduced because there is no way for the vibrations from the strings to be passed from under the bridge directly to the back of the violin.
If you try to tune-up the strings and then play a violin with no sound post in place, there is a high risk that the front of the violin will soon get a bad crack in the wood. This can easily happen because the stretched strings exert a high pressure on the bridge and the bridge would be supported by nothing but the very thin wood which is used to make the top of the instrument.
To re-position a loose sound post you must use a specially-made metal gadget known as a "sound post positioning tool". To use the tool, its sharp end must first be inserted into a small slit you should find in the side of the sound post. You can then use the tool to hold the sound post and pass it carefully through one of the f-shaped sound holes which are cut into the front of the violin. Then you must use the tool to wedge the sound post firmly into position between the front and back of the instrument.
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This repair should not be performed as a DIY project as damage to the instrument can occur. The cost is often minimal especially if other items are purchased or other repairs are performed.
Dave Lashof
How do you attach a violin chin piece?
I recently purchased a chin pillow (commonly called a chin chum) for a violin. Problem is I cannot figure out how to attach it to the chin rest. All it is made of is thin foam covered with a felt material in the shape of a large tear drop. At the bottom is an elastic band, which I thought was supposed to some how wrap around the base of the violin. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to stay secure. Anyone know how this thing works?
First off, you do not rosin a violin. You rosin a bow. How to rosin a bow: 1. Hold end of bow (frog end) in right hand in firm grip. 2. take rosin in left hand and hold one end. do not touch the other end of the rosin with your hand 3. Put the end of the rosin that you are not touching with your left hand and place in contact with horsehair on tip of bow (not frog end) 4. Gently rub rosin on bow, sliding up and down horsehair. Note: Do NOT let hand rub horsehair, just the rosin!!! 5. now you can play the violin with rosin on the bow! Yea!!!!
Medieval musical instrument with 3 strings?
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Other medieval bowed instruments were the medieval fiddle, an ancestor of the viola da gamba, and the bowed lyre of Northwestern Europe called a croud, crowd, or crwth.
What is the oldest string instrument?
The lyre is the oldest string instument...it was created in Egypt around 4000 BCE
What year was the violin invented?
I'm not quite sure if you mean when was the violin made or...um...when was the violin. But anyways, I'm going to answer when was the violin made.
It is probable that the violin (and its other cousins the viola and cello) were created during the mid-16th century in Northern Italy. Perhaps being the maker of the first true violins, Andrea Amati (ca. 1500-1577) was the patriarch of the Cremona school of violin making. Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737) and Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri (1698-1744), brought the violin to its highest level both as a musical instrument and as a work of art.
A song that has a violin in it?
Alicia keys karma , search miri be ari , twista overnight clebrity , black violin ,
How do you play secrets onerepublic on the violin?
it starts at open a so
0 0 0 0 0 d2 a0 0 0 0 0 d2 11
and so on its pretty basic and if you know this you can figure out the rest
A violin is b flat instrument what is a viola?
Violins are NOT b-flat instruments. A violin is a C instrument (like a flute or piano). A viola is also a C instrument. The viola is larger and can play a fifth lower than the violin. Violin strings highest to lowest: e, A, D, G. Viola strings highest to lowest: A, D, G, C. Same A, D, and G pitched strings.
Is it easier to play a mandolin or an ukulele?
It would be difficult to say which was harder. But the guitar has 6 strings and a ukulele only 4. That makes the ukulele easier to learn most of the chords on. Depending on the type of music, it may be easier to learn certain songs on the guitar.
How many violins are there in a string quartet?
Strange as it may seem, there are four (4) players. Almost always in this configuration:
* 2 Violins * 1 Viola * 1 Cello
How many strings does the guzheng have?
An European zither about 30 to 45 strings, and a Chinese zither has about 21-25 strings.
Between thirteen to twenty five.
How do you play a flat note on the violin?
there are two ways. One, play a low first finger on the D string. A low first finger is placed half the distance from the end of the fingerboard than a normal first finger.
Two, play a low fourth finger on the A string. A low fourth finger should be snugly next to your third finger on the fingerboard.
Is the double bass larger than a violin?
No. The double bass is a huge 4-stringed instrument that must be set on the floor, upright, while playing. For this reason, it is often called an upright bass.
