4/4 (Full Size) Hand-carved solid spruce top, solid maple back & sides
Beautiful satin antique finish
Maple fingerboard, chin rest and pegs, Alloy tailpiece with four integrated fine tuners
Includes: Brazil wood bow with unbleached genuine horsehair, a violin bridge, a quality rosin.The violin, sometimes known as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and highest-pitched instrument in the family in regular use.Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres. They are most prominent in the
Western classical tradition, both in ensembles (from
chamber music to
orchestras) and as solo instruments and in many varieties of
folk music, including
country music,
bluegrass music and in
jazz.
Electric violins with solid bodies and
piezoelectric pickups are used in some forms of
rock music and
jazz fusion, with the pickups plugged into
instrument amplifiers and speakers to produce sound. Further, the violin has come to be played in many non-Western music cultures, including
Indian music and
Iranian music. The name
fiddle is often used regardless of the type of music played on it.The violin was first known in 16th-century
Italy, with some further modifications occurring in the 18th and 19th centuries to give the instrument a more powerful sound and projection. In Europe, it served as the basis for the development of other stringed instruments used in Western classical music, such as the viola