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	Violin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first real violin was built by Andrea Amati in the first half of the 16th century by order of the Medici family, who had asked for an instrument that could be used by street musicians, but with the quality of a lute, which was a very popular instrument among the noble in that time.
		Violins are tuned by turning the pegs in the pegbox under the scroll, or by adjusting the fine tuner screws at the tailpiece.
		A violin is usually played using a bow consisting of a stick with a ribbon of horsehair strung between the tip and frog (or nut, or heel) at opposite ends.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Violin (6192 words)

	Violin family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Violin family of instruments was developed in Italy in the 17th Century.
		Although usually associated with the violin family, the double bass's origins are generally believed to be of the viol family, as may be seen by its sloping shoulders compared to the violin.
		However, instruments in the violin family are set apart by similarities in shape, in tuning practice, and in history.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Violin_family (339 words)

	violin. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The instruments of the violin family have been the dominant bowed instruments because of their versatility, brilliance, and balance of tone, and their wide dynamic range.
		The smallest of this group of instruments is also called violin, and its four strings, tuned in fifths, run from the tailpiece at the base of the body over a bridge in the lower center, along the fingerboard, and into the pegbox.
		The violin is played by drawing a horsehair bow, held in the right hand, across the strings; the body is supported by the shoulder and held firm by the chin.
	www.bartleby.com /65/vi/violin.html (659 words)

	Instruments of the Violin Family
		It is fairly obvious that denting the violin body by the local pressure of a bridge foot gives rise to a flow of room air into the region of the dent, i.e., into the volume vacated by the inward motion of the plate.
		Because of the differences in proportion between violins and violas, the mode-2 air resonance of a viola is somewhat higher in relation to the wood resonance than is is for a violin.
		On an average basis, the violin radiates its low-frequency partials equally in directions; its higher components are radiated in a progressively righter beam a direction perpendicular to the plate (this behavior is reminiscent of the progressively increasing directionality sound components emitted by a trumpet or a woodwind; see secs.
	www.zainea.com /violinfamily.htm (11017 words)

	New Violin Family Association
		The VIOLIN OCTET differs from the existing violin family of violin, viola, cello, and bass in which their chief acoustic characteristics are not only different from the violin but from each other.
		Therefore, for Alto Violin it is customary to provide both a concert pitch part (in alto clef; same as you would write for viola) and a "'cello clef" transposed part (sounding a Perfect 8va higher than written with the part written the same as you would for violoncelli; i.e., primarily in bass clef).
		In the 14th and 15th Centuries there were at least 6 or 7 members of the violin family, but with the exquisite development of the violin and the literature for string quartet in the 16th and 17th Centuries, the other instruments fell into disuse and are now in museums.
	www.newviolinfamily.org /8tet.html (2421 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for violin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		violin VIOLIN [violin] family of stringed musical instruments having wooden bodies whose backs and fronts are slightly convex, the fronts pierced by two Æ’-shaped resonance holes.
		He was professor of violin at the Paris Conservatory from its founding in 1795 until 1826 and was one of the authors of the violin method taught there.
		He extended the compass of the violin by his use of harmonics, perfected the use of double and triple stops, and revived the practice of scordatura, the diverse tunings of the strings.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/13500.html (724 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - violin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		VIOLIN [violin] family of stringed musical instruments having wooden bodies whose backs and fronts are slightly convex, the fronts pierced by two ƒ-shaped resonance holes.
		The bass viol was favored for solo playing in the 17th and early 18th cent., and the cello became an important solo instrument only after the disappearance of the viols and the subsequent refinement of cello technique by Jean Louis Duport (1749-1819).
		Solving the violin mystery: was this $20,000,000 violin a fake?(Messiah Violin)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/v1/violin.asp (824 words)

	EARLY HISTORY OF THE VIOLIN FAMILY IN ITALY
		Girolamo's son Nicola (1596-1684) was the only Cremonese violin maker to have survived the famine of 1628 and the plague which swept through Cremona two years later.
		Being the sole survivor of a violin making tradition, the task of carrying on that tradition then fell to Nicola, and he proved himself to be most able.
		His violins along with the numerous instruments of Stradivari are today the most valued and sought after by concert artists and collectors for their sonorous qualities.
	www.gussetviolins.com /earlyhistory.htm (521 words)

	Violin family instruments and Bows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This violin is in great original condition, with handsome brown varnish.
		This violin and case are accompanied by a good recent Brazilwood bow.
		This violin represents the culmination of 20 years of Violin building by the noted Idaho builder, Evan Smith.
	www.gregboyd.com /violins.html (650 words)

	Violin makers Birute and Czes - Kul Violins Studio website - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		After a prolonged, years lasting collaboration with top violin family instrument players we realized that musicians usually experience trouble trying to describe (put into words) violin sound quality.
		Being violin makers, we had to sort out, what reasons force some violins to sound better, and some - even to be on top.
		That's the reason why experienced violin makers try to choose as old wood as possible for their instruments.
	www.kulviolins.com (652 words)

	Early Strings: Violin Family Instruments
		Violin based on the Stradivari 'P' form, body length of 350mm, string length of 320mm.
		The second is that his working methods, which define the Cremona violin, stayed completely within the Amati family for three generations, from about 1540 until about 1635.
		Other European makers certainly built violins, but because they did not know how the Cremonese instruments were made, they could only copy their most superficial aspects.
	www.earlystrings.com /violin-family-instruments.html (979 words)

	Wildwood Music - Violin Family
		We carry an extensive selection of violins, violas and cellos, from starter kits to fine concert instruments.
		Some fiddlers sand down the bridge to ease the play, but a fiddle and a violin are the same instrument.
		We carry their violins, violas and cellos, which are setup locally by expert repairman and crafter Jeff Doherty.
	www.wildwood.ws /violinfam.html (347 words)

	Search Results for "Violin family"
		...The instruments of the violin family have been the dominant bowed instruments because of their versatility, brilliance, and balance of tone, and their wide dynamic...
		The founder of the Cremona school was Andrea Amati (c.1520-c.1578), whose earliest violins date from c.1564.
		The dye has largely been replaced by synthetic dyes for fabrics, but it is still used in high-quality red...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/65search?query=Violin+family (295 words)

	Identifying and Appraising Violin Family Instruments
		If the label appears to be very old and in similar condition to the rest of the violin, it may be authentic, but no reputable appraiser would ever consider the label as more than one of many factors in authenticating an instrument.
		Dealers of fine violins will often have an appraiser on staff, but you should be wary of a dealer who offers to buy your instrument based on their own appraisals.
		There are a number of extensive reference indexes of violin makers, but they are generally rare and expensive books and likely to be found only in scholarly libraries or in the possession of dealers in fine instruments.
	www.oriscus.com /mi/violin.htm (2158 words)

	Synthesizing Bowed Strings: the Violin family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Nonetheless, keyboard players were emulating solo violins and their close relatives many years before the advent of digital synthesis, DSPs, and physical modelling, so there must be a way to achieve acceptable results on subtractive synthesizers.
		In the case of the violin, the observed result is a curve with a flat response across a few hundred Hertz, a steep roll-off in the bass, and a gentler roll-off of about 9dB per octave in the upper-mid and high frequencies (see Figure 13, above left).
		The timbre of a violin is strongly linked to the dominant body resonances in the region of a few hundred Hertz, as well as the broad combination of resonances in the region of 2kHz to 4-5kHz or thereabouts.
	soundonsound.com /sos/apr03/articles/synthsecrets48.asp?... (3235 words)

	Encyclopedia Smithsonian:Guarneri
		The most illustrious member of this famous family of violin makers was Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri (Cremona, Italy, 1698-1744), the fifth and last member of the family, grandson of Andrea, son of Giuseppe Giovanni Battista.
		Stradivari and Guarnerius are ranked as the greatest of violin makers, and some fine violinists prefer the instruments of Joseph Guarnerius del Gesu to those of Stradivari.
		Andrea Guarneri (Cremona, Italy, 1626-98), founder of the family, was a fellow apprentice of Stradivari in the workshop of Nicolo Amati.
	www.si.edu /resource/faq/nmah/guarneri.htm (520 words)

	Care of the violin family
		Bowed string instruments –; violins, violas, cellos and string basses – may look simple, but they are as complex and delicate as a fine Swiss watch.
		The violin family has four members: violin, viola, cello (short for “violincello”) and bass.
		Although a good violin shop can guide you in choosing a size, your child’s teacher is the person best qualified to select the appropriate size of instrument.
	www.applebaumviolin.com /pages/care/care01.html (500 words)

	Violin links to play and free sheet music page
		Violin Maker and repairer from Plovdiv,Bulgaria.Sells the best ever made String Adjusters for instruments of the violin family and silver mounted Bow Frogs.
		He is a former instructor at the Violin Making School of America and a past president of the Violin Society of America.
		The Hamburg-based maker Andreas Hampel is specialized on making fine copies of classic violins, violas and violoncellos: His instruments are estimated not only for their classical appearance but also for their outstanding tonal properties.
	www.musicianspage.com /music-links/violin.html (1341 words)

	Mallion...The World's Most Dangerous Violin Family
		Mallion is the name of my hybrid violin design and the coinciding family of bowed strings modeled after it.
		The only part of the acoustic violin I have never enjoyed is the fragility of the instrument, I have often felt it is like playing an egg with strings.
		I wanted to, and I have, created a kind of violin and violin family that is, when compared to standard acoustic or other electric violins, indestructible.
	www.meatleg.com /malgen.html (535 words)

	violin family
		Family of bowed stringed instruments developed in 17th-century Italy, which eventually superseded the viols and formed the basis of the modern orchestra.
		There are four instruments:; violin, viola, cello (or violoncello), and the double bass which is descended from the bass viol (or violone).
		Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines plc.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0005367.html (230 words)

	Quality violin family instruments at affordable prices
		If you are new to the violin world, you need to know that there are a lot of fundamental elements that determine whether or not a violin is playable.
		Correct bridge height, proper fingerboard sweep, a well fitted sound post, Fitted pegs...etc, are all things a violin needs in order to be played to its fullest potential.
		We are a full-service,professional violin shop located in Boise,Idaho.Established in 1976, our business grew out of a need for good quality violins, violas, cellos, and basses that were properly-adjusted and reasonably priced in our local area.
	www.telfordviolins.com (367 words)

	Violin Family Books
		Violin and Keyboard : The Duo Repertoire From Beethoven to the Present Vol 2; Abram Loft; Hardcover; $34.00
		The Violin Makers of the Guarneri Family, 1626-1762; William Henry Hill, et al; Paperback; $14.36
		Violin and Keyboard : The Duo Repertoire : From the Seventeenth Century to Mozart Vol 1; Abram Loft; Hardcover; $34.00
	www.musictrader.com /bookviol.html (918 words)

	Dominik Zuchowicz Stringed Instruments Photo Gallery - Violin Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I make instruments of the violin family in both modern and early forms, following the examples of great makers of the past.
		I am mindful of the variety of tonal ideals expressed in their various designs and feel that each type has its own charm and purpose.
		In pursuit of this variety, I base my violins on examples of Stradivari, Guarneri "del Gesu," Nicolo Amati and Jacob Stainer.
	www.zuchowicz.com /dominik/violin.html (147 words)

	Violin Family Instruments from John Hornby Skewes
		Top-selling violin family range including viola,cellos, double basses, available in various sizes, and many accessories.
		Superior String sets for the whole Violin Family.
		For all stringed instruments, cleans underneath strings, prolongs string life, removes corrosive sweat and grime, reduces costly fret wear, removes rosin residue, chemical free and fits in your pocket.
	www.jhs.co.uk /violin.htm (167 words)

	Easthampton Violin
		We purchase bows and fine European and American Violins.
		We would be pleased to discuss the purchase or brokerage of any estate antique musical instruments.
		We are seeking instruments, photographs, biographical information and business records related to the violin makers of Massachusetts and the Connecticut River Valley, 1850-1950.
	www.easthamptonviolin.com (102 words)

	Violin Family Strings - Elderly Instruments
		Helicore H310 violin strings, 4/4 size, heavy tension, plain steel E, aluminum wound A, titanium wound D, silver wound G...more...
		Helicore violin strings, 4/4 size, medium tension, plain steel E, aluminum wound A, titanium wound D, silver wound G..more...
		The "Infeld Blue" set enhances the "brighter overtones" on most violins and represents half of the Thomastik-Infeld violin string system (see also Infeld Red).
	www.elderly.com /accessories/cats/STVI.html (257 words)

	Care of the violin family
		This is a job for a professional, as violin varnishes are multi-layered, built up with repeated applications of special concoctions.
		Varnish is an integral part of the instrument and its value, so it is never stripped and replaced.
		We often recommend Hill-type miniature tuners, which are much less likely to damage the top of a violin.
	www.applebaumviolin.com /pages/care/care04.html (472 words)

	Gruhn Guitars Inventory - August 18, 2006
		VF2214 E. Reinhold Schmidt, Saxony, violin, circa 1920, EXC (repaired hairline top crack), attractive two-piece back, a fine hand made instrument, HC.
		VF2338 Knilling, made in Germany, 3/4 size copy of Stradivarius violin, c.
		VF2434 Robert Glier Jr., Cincinnati, Ohio, violin, 1928, EXC (normal varnish wear but no cracks), one-piece back with bold diagonal striped maple, golden orange varnish, a superb handmade instrument by one of America's finest makers, HC......$5000
	www.gruhn.com /catalog/vf.htm (1247 words)

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