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"Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable".
Leonard Bernstein, 1918 - 1990
American Composer & Conductor
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Violin Construction
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| The modern violin consists of about seventy parts. Parts include the belly, the back, the ribs, inside blocks, inside lining, bass bar, purfling, finger board, neck, scroll, nut, lower nut, tailpiece, loop, end button, pegs, strings, bridge, and the sound post.
The body of the violin is a hollow box which measures about 35.5 cm in length. The back, the neck, the ribs and the bridge are usually made of maple. The belly, linings, and the soundpost are usually made of spruce.
Scrupulous care is taken in selecting and shaping the belly and back. They must be adjusted to certain frequencies before assembly in order for the main resonance of the instrument to be of the appropriate strength and pitch.
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Some Violin Details
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| The Violin, the most commonly used member of the modern string family, is the highest-sounding instrument of that group. Its four strings are stretched over a high arched bridge that permits the playing of one or two strings at a time, as well as the nearly simultaneous sounding of three or four as chords. The overall length of the violin averages about 60 cm (23.5 inches), whereas the sounding length of the strings, from bridge to the nut at the end of the fingerboard, is about 32 cm (12.75 inches). The instrument is usually held on the left side of the body, while the right hand holds the bow. The wider end of the instrument is placed between the player's left shoulder and chin, while the left hand encircles its neck, the fingers stopping the strings to produce the various pitches. Sound is produced by drawing the bow across the strings to make them vibrate, or by plucking the strings (PIZZICATO). |
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"Music is the mediator between the Spiritual and the Sensual Life"
Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770 - 1827
German Composer
The Legend of Orpheus:
Orpheus was the greatest musician and poet of Greek Myth, whose songs could charm wild beasts and coax even rocks and trees into movement. 
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