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The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, [a] is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino piccolo and the pochette, but these are virtually unused. Most violins have a hollow wooden body, and ...
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The violin family of musical instruments was developed in...
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A cello bow. In music, a bow (/ b oʊ /) is a tensioned stick...
- Violin Acoustics
Nov 7, 2023 · 5. Julia Fischer. Fischer is not only a celebrated classical violinist, but she’s also a pianist and a chamber musician. She was born in Munich, Germany, to a musically-inclined mother, Viera Fischer, who gifted Julia her first violin at the age of three. That was also when she started teaching her piano.
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The violin, viola and cello were first built in the early 16th century, in Italy. The earliest evidence for their existence is in paintings by Gaudenzio Ferrari from the 1530s, though Ferrari's instruments had only three strings. The Académie musicale, a treatise written in 1556 by Philibert Jambe de Fer, gives a clear description of the ...
A royal instrument. During the 1500s, the violin quickly became popular in Europe, with street musicians and nobles alike. The French king, Charles IX – a great lover of music – commissioned many beautiful violins and other stringed instruments during his reign. ex "Kurtz" Violin (ca. 1560) by Andrea Amati The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A violin and bow in its case. The violin is a string instrument which has four strings and is played with a bow. [1] The strings are usually tuned to the notes G, D, A, and E. [2] It is held between the left collar bone (near the shoulder) and the chin. Different notes are made by fingering (pressing on the strings) with the left hand while ...
Since the mid 16th century, both the history of violin making and the lives ofthe luthiers who have marked the evolution of this instrument have been inextricablybound up with the history of Cremona. Andrea Amati 1566c. "Carlo IX" violin - side Museo del Violino. Long ago in 1539, at the time when the town was surrounded by high defensive walls ...
