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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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      Instrument names in the violin family are all derived from...

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      A cello bow. In music, a bow (/ b oʊ /) is a tensioned stick...

  2. Instrument names in the violin family are all derived from the root viola, which is a derivative of the Medieval Latin word vitula (meaning "stringed instrument"). A violin is a "little viola", a violone is a "big viola" or a bass violin , and a violoncello (often abbreviated cello ) is a "small violone" (or literally, a "small big viola").

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  4. 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.

  5. v. t. e. 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 ...

  6. English: The violin is a musical instrument with four strings, originating in Western Europe. The four strings are E, A, D, and G. This instrument can play the highest string. Esperanto: La violino estas muzika instrumento kun kvar kordoj, origine de Okcidenta Eŭropo.

  7. 6 days ago · violin, bowed stringed musical instrument that evolved during the Renaissance from earlier bowed instruments: the medieval fiddle; its 16th-century Italian offshoot, the lira da braccio; and the rebec. The violin is probably the best known and most widely distributed musical instrument in the world. Like its predecessors but unlike its cousin ...

  8. 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 ...

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