Violin

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It is mostly easy to play doublestops on the violin because the strings are small and the tension is light.

However, the claim that it is easier to play double stops on the violin than any other instrument is open for debate.

Many instruments, including bowed string instruments, have been designed specifically for playing doublestops or chords. Some of these have diminished in use over the centuries, one was a "flash in the pan". For instance, the viola da gamba family, a bowed, fretted family of instruments used through the renaissance and baroque periods (and now, because of the Renaissance and Baroque revivals) are ideally suited for playing double stops and chords. During Schubert's time (classical era), an instrument called the Arpeggione was designed and built, and Schubert wrote a sonata for it (as did some other composers.) It was fretted like a guitar, had over 2 octaves of frets, and bowed and held like a 'cello. It appears (from chords written in Schubert's sonata) to have been tuned like a guitar as well.

Additionally, unless the definition of double stops is limited to be "two notes played on a violin family instrument," many other instruments can play more than one fingered note at the same time. In the string family, nearly every instrument with more than one string can do this. Many Asian instruments which are bowed and have more than one string have a lively repertory with doublestops included. Some of these are intended for double-stopping, rather than just playing single notes, and are much easier to play doublestops on.

Further, an argument can be made that the larger members of the string family are easier to play doublestops on, because, while the violin requires less pressure, the larger instruments require less accuracy. With longer string lengths, a physical "miss" of a milimeter has much less out-of-tune effect on a cello than it does on a violin!

Strings were first made of sheep's intestines (called "catgut"), stretched, dried and twisted. Contrary to popular belief, violin strings were never made of actual cat's intestines. Plain gut strings are used in both modern and "period" music though in recent years the "baroque" historically accurate performances players seem to use them more often than those musicians who play later period music or play baroque music in a "modern" style. Gut strings are made by a number of specialty string makers as well as some large stringmaking companies. In the 19th century (and even earlier though not yet prevalent) metal windings were developed for the lower-pitched gut strings. Wound strings avoid the flabby sound of a light-gauge string at low tension. Heavier plain-gut strings at a suitable tension are inconvenient to play and difficult to fit into the pegbox. There are many claims made that gut strings are difficult to keep in tune. In fact for those who actually have experience with them, plain gut strings are quite stable from a tuning standpoint. Wound gut do have more instability of tuning due to the different response to moisture and heat between the winding and the core, and from string to string. Some players use olive oil on gut strings to extend their playing life, and improve tuning stability by reducing the strings' sensitivity to humidity. Gut strings tend to hold their sound quality nicely right up until they fail, or become excessively worn. Modern strings are most commonly either a stranded synthetic core wound with various metals, or a steel core, which may be solid or stranded, often wound with various other metals. With low-density cores such as gut or synthetic fiber, the winding allows a string to be thin enough to play, while sounding the desired pitch at an appropriate tension. The winding of steel strings affects their flexibility and surface properties, as well as mass. Strings may be wound with several layers, in part to control the damping of vibrations, and influence the "warmth" or "brightness" of the string by manipulating the strength of its overtones.

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It means connecting two notes (playing two notes in one bow stroke)

The violin is the smallest member of the string family.

on the G string 3-4 pattern L1 (Ab), L2(Bb), 3(C), L4(Db) on D string 3-4 patter L1(Eb), L2(F natural), 3(G natural), L4(Ab) on A string 2-3 pattern L1(Bb), L2(C natural), L3(Db), L4(Eb) on E string 2-3 pattern L1(F natural), L2(G natural), L3(Ab)

on a regular flute, the "C" has three different fingerings, depending on the octave. The lowest C (middle C on a piano) is all of your fingers, except your left hand pinky, and your right hand pinky is on the first to foot joint keys (not the Eb key, but the bottom two on a student flute). your embouchure should be relaxed and your air slow to produce this note. the next two octaves are both just the index finger of your left hand. Your embouchure and air speed determines the octave. The highest octave C (two c's above the staff) is all the fingers of your left hand except your thumb, and the index finger of your right hand. Your embouchure and air must be very tight and precise to produce this note.

For temporary cleaning you should rosin your bow. You can buy rosin at virtually any music store that sells/repairs any stringed instruments. To use the rosin, rub it up and down your bow hair quickly, pressing down hard. Rub it approximately 50 times the very first time you rosin your bow, and 25-30 rubs 1 or 2 times a week after that. Do not rosin your bow every day. <><><> Ask your nearest music shop. It can be oiled to be cleaned. <><><> You should not clean bow hairs. You should however have your bow rehaired approximately every year depending on how much you play. It is bad to touch or try and clean the hairs because the hairs have very, very tiny burs on them which is what the rosin sticks to and is also what helps create the friction on the string which makes the string resonate and create sound. If you touch or clean the bow hairs, you will knock off these tiny burs. <><><> Don't clean the hairs. Just rehair it. If it's kind of brown near the frog, that's normal and avoid touching it. If the whole thing is dirty and you've touched it too much, take it to a violin repair specialist.

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NEVER use oil on the hair, if the hair is filthy or a number of hairs have broken, just have new hair inserted. The so-called burs can't be "knocked off", since they don't actually exist. Rosin just sticks to the uneven hair (magnify under a microscope). If you try and clean hair, you could just make it worse, never ever use alcohol. The best thing to do is wash your hands before you play and get the bow rehaired once or twice a week.

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Da capo means in music that you must repeat the piece from the beginning til the point marked. (I'm not English, sorry if my English is a bit bad)

viola actually, a viola is a slightly bigger version of the violin. The violin is actually the smallest instrument in the string family, but if you are looking for a smaller violin the smallest one I've heard of is the 1/8th size.

The bridge of a violin does the same thing as the bridges of most other stringed instruments, including the piano, guitar, uke, bass, harpsicord, crwd, etc. It raises the strings from the soundboard or resonating chamber, and it also transfers the vibrating energy of the string to the soundboard or resonating chamber. In the case of bowed instruments like the violin, it also places the strings along an arc (the upper edge of the bridge) so that they are not co-planar. If they were co-planar, you could never get the bow to make one string resonate while leaving the others untouched.

Jesse Spencer, who plays Dr. Robert Chase in the hit show House, plays the violin. (He stars alongside Hugh Laurie in the show). Spencer was also born in Melbourne, Australia and as of 2008, he plays violin in Band from TV, a music group formed by Gene Grunberg. They play various events, putting the proceeds into the different charities that each member supports. Spencer has played the violin since the age of ten and he also plays the guitar and piano.

Basically any instrument of the string section (e.g. violin, viola, cello)

go to flutesongs.com and look up "cancan" it should be able to work however it doesnt work on some computers.

Bb C Eb D C F F F G D Eb C C C Eb D C Bb Bb A G F Eb D C Bb C Eb D C F F F G D Eb C C C Eb D C Bb F C D Bb Bb

The first modern violin was crafted in Europe in the 16th century, and improved upon during the 18th and 19th centuries.

The neck, in the case of the saxophone, is the starting point of the amplifiation of its sound. All necks on saxes are designed to play at their C sharp pitch (so that a C sharp will be played when no keys are held down, or in its C sharp alternate state where the first keys are not held down), being a concert B on Tenor and other B flat saxophones, and a concert E on the alto and other E flat saxophones. The individual key on the neck (it's sometimes located below the detachable neck on the bari) is a mechanism to bring notes A and higher up an octave, whereas a side key brings up notes D through G. The make of the neck can determine the clarity of the sound in some cases (a finer neck definitely makes for better sound execution than a poor quality neck!) as it is the primary amplifier of all sound on the instrument.

So, basically, in terms easier for the typical person to understand - it shapes and amplifies the sound.

| To make higher pitched sounds you place your fingers further away from the scroll, which is also nearer to your chin. These are usually the fingers of the left hand.,, Tom play lower pitched notes you place your finger tips onto the string nearer to the scroll. The scroll is that "curly" end of the violin close to the pegs which can be turned tighter or looser to "tune" the strings to their correct pitch.

First of all Baroque music has completely different instruments, the baroque orchestra was tiny it consisted of a harpsichord, a viola, a violin and a violin cello. If you listen to the hallelujah chorus from handels messiah you can hear the terraced dynamics which were used in that era. If you then listen to a song by Jay z it is pretty easy to tell the difference

No, I'm sorry, I searched the web for ages but I could only find amps for Electric Violins......... Maxydog, Samster, Hampster!

On the G, you put your second finger down and right next to it you put your third finger(ring finger). That is a low C. On the A string, you put your first finger down in it's normal position and then place your second finger right next to it. On the E string, you go up to third position and put your second finger down in it's spot as a B and put your third finger right next to it. Voila!