Violine

The violin is a stringed instrument that has been an integral part of the music industry for centuries. It is an immensely versatile instrument used in classical and traditional music, as well as jazz, folk, rock, and world styles. Its unique sound has made it a crowd favorite in countless venues around the world.

Generally speaking, a student violin with the traditional bass bar will be bright and brassy sounding in the lower register. On the other hand, if the tone is warm and deep on the G and D string, the A and E strings will tend to be weak and wooly.

“Playing the violin” is a term for faking sympathy for another's troubles. It comes from emotional or melancholy music often being played on a violin. “The World's Tiniest Violin” indicates that one gives so little care that they may as well have been playing a tiny violin.

The violin has four strings. And it's the vibrations going through those strings that creates the sound so if you look as you draw the bow across the string you get vibrations going from side to side.

: a stringed musical instrument with four strings that is usually held against the shoulder under the chin and played with a bow.

first violin (plural first violins) (music) The lead or primary violin role in an orchestra or other ensemble, or in a musical composition, that typically contains the melody and is often more technically demanding than the second violin role.

The sound of a violin is often described as rich, complex, and versatile. It is characterized by its wide range of tonal colors, from bright and crisp to warm and mellow, and its ability to produce a wide range of dynamics, from the softest pianissimo to the loudest fortissimo.

Waveform for a violin, the result of combining many simple waves. A vibrating string does not produce a single frequency. The sound may be described as a combination of a fundamental frequency and its overtones, which cause the sound to have a quality that is individual to the instrument, known as the timbre.

fiddle Violin is the formal word for a fiddle - a stringed instrument that's held to a player's neck and played with a bow. Nearly every string quartet includes at least one violin.

To control or manipulate someone, especially by playing on their emotions.

What's in a NAME? The word “violin” comes from Italian violino, a diminutive form of viola, which owes its roots to Medieval Latin vitula (“stringed instrument”). This latin word is believed to stem from Vitula, Roman goddess of joy, or from related Latin verb vitulari, “to exult, be joyful.”

Not surprisingly, the violin has no limits when it comes to what it can do. This instrument's tone can ensemble a range of music styles, including fast, slow, and sanguine. The violin also gets its fame from being the tallest one among all of the string instruments.