| The violin is a stringed instrument that you | | | | this device helps to coordinate the |
| play by pulling a bow across the strings. It | | | | vibrations of the front and back panels. |
| belongs to the stringed instrument family | | | | There are two F-shaped holes in the table |
| that contains the same instruments as the | | | | near the bridge that lets the panels vibrate |
| viola, cello and the double bass. The violin | | | | freely. |
| is the smallest instrument in this group and | | | | |
| the one with the highest sounding pitch. This | | | | Playing the violin |
| musical instrument is essential when | | | | |
| performing chamber music, but it provides for | | | | When a musician plays the violin, he/she must |
| exceptional solo performances as well. | | | | hold the neck of the instrument with the |
| | | | thumb and forefinger of the left hand. The |
| Description of a violin | | | | left shoulder supports the violin and keeps |
| | | | it in the correct position of having the chin |
| A violin is a hollow wooden box with rounded | | | | rest on a support located beside the |
| ends and a narrow center. The front and the | | | | stringholder. He/She grasps the bow with the |
| back of the instrument are slightly convex | | | | right hand and draws it across the strings |
| and connected to each other by the sides, | | | | near the bridge. The left hand fingers press |
| also called ribs. There are four sets of | | | | or pluck the strings against the wood in |
| strings on a violin that extend from a string | | | | different ways to produce different c sounds |
| holder at the bottom of the body, over a | | | | or chords. This pressure shortens the string |
| raised bridge to the end of the narrow neck, | | | | and raises or lowers the pitch. |
| which is called the fingerboard. On the | | | | |
| fingerboard, the four strings are inserted | | | | History of the Violin |
| into a pegbox and are held there with pegs. | | | | |
| The pegs are twisted in order to tune the | | | | The modern violin was developed in Italy in |
| violin, in much the same way as you tune a | | | | the sixteenth century using the techniques |
| guitar, in order to raise or lower the pitch | | | | used in a variety of other stringed |
| of each string. The bow is a long arched | | | | instruments, but mainly the viol. The viol |
| strip of wood with horsehair strings | | | | had more strings than we see on the violin |
| stretched along its length. When the bow is | | | | and the body was not convex, but was flat. |
| drawn across the strings on the body of the | | | | The most famous violin in the world is the |
| violin it produces a sound. | | | | Stradivarius, named after its maker, Antonio |
| | | | Stradivari from the Italian town of Cremona. |
| The body of the violin is a resonator, which | | | | Although there have been a few minor changes |
| means that it amplifies the vibration | | | | in the overall design of the violin, the |
| produced by drawing the bow across the | | | | designs of the Italian masters, the design |
| strings. There is a block of wood inside the | | | | has basically remain the same. |
| body of the violin, called a sound post and | | | | |