Violins

Composers often assign the melody to the first violins, typically a more difficult part using higher positions, while second violins play harmony, accompaniment patterns or the melody an octave lower than the first violins.

Electric violins main Acoustic and electric violins Electric violins have a magnetic or piezoelectric pickup that converts string vibration to an electric signal.

Small violins were made at least during the late Renaissance Period and quite probably into the Baroque period that were a fourth higher in pitch than standard violins.

These early fractional violins are easily confused with children-sized violins, but, if confirmed by an expert, are highly sought by collectors and museums.

These violins could be used either by children, or by musicians who had parts that were then outside of the range of standard violins.

Violins often replaced cornetts in consort music, and cornetts similarly substituted for violins in consort music and sacred music.

While most violins have four strings, there are violins with as many as seven strings.

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Other creations include lap steel guitars, acoustic and electric banjos, mandolins, classical acoustic guitars, classical electric and electric bass, and electric violins.

Violins have been Thea’s companions ever since.

He let the instruments be heard again in musical tributes through his organization, Violins of Hope.

My Mother wrote to her informing her there was no money in our house to pay for violins.

On it, the track opens with honky-tonk violins, as if a barn party is about to start.

Sometimes the viola left, sometimes the recorders came in, mostly the violins stayed, except when one got the sulks.

The body's shape almost exactly matches those of wood violins, except it is hollow to keep it lightweight.

Named after a Bob Dylan song, Farewell Angelina features a blend of harmonies over double violins.

One of her violins was appraised at $7,000, and she has turned her skills into a career.

On Will You Return When You Come Down, saccharine violins wrap around you like strings of candy floss, while Assassins of Youth deals in a sprawling, overdriven journey into indie dystopia.

The band is now streaming their new single "Cicatrice", featuring everything you love about hardcore plus a handful of violins and saxophones.

The cry of violins, the snarl of brass, the great swells of orchestral tone give voice to thoughts and emotions in ways that words cannot.