She put the violin away and took out some linen, needles and yarn to while away the long, idle days in Budapest.

In addition, while the violin has bulging shoulders, most double basses have shoulders carved with a more acute slope, like members of the viol family.

He states that, while the exterior of the double bass may resemble the viola da gamba, the internal construction of the double bass is nearly identical to instruments in the violin family, and very different from the internal structure of viols.

Historically, the majority of fiddle music was dance music, while violin music had either grown out of dance music or was something else entirely.

The serpent became practically the only cornetto used by the early 17th century while other ranges were replaced by the violin.

Beethoven contributed to the repertoire with a Triple Concerto for piano, violin, cello and orchestra while later in the century, Brahms wrote a Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra.

On the shorter scale of the violin, the left hand may easily reach a range of slightly more than two octaves without shifting position, while on the bass ' longer scale, a single octave or a ninth is reachable in lower positions.

Like a violin, this method shortened the vibrating length of the string to produce higher tones, while releasing the finger gave the string a greater vibrating length, thereby producing a tone lower in pitch.

His mother was quite upset that he had moved on from the violin, while Leon applauded his performances with his " band " on the street corners.

One of her most-cited performances, Duets on Ice, which she conducted in New York and other cities around the world, involved her playing the violin along with a recording while wearing ice skates with the blades frozen into a block of ice ; the performance ended only when the ice had melted away.

He later said that this was at the instigation of his grandfather who, exasperated at the child's habit of wandering around while practising the violin, bought him a small cello to stop him from " getting in everybody's way ".

* Giles Lewin, while being more famous for his work on violin and bagpipes, also plays the rebec in the Dufay Collective.

At the age of fifteen, while continuing his violin studies, Monteux took up the viola.

The earliest string trio form consisted of two violins and a cello, a grouping which had grown out of the Baroque trio sonata, while later string trios more commonly are scored for violin, viola, and cello ( Tilmouth and Smallman 2001 ).

In January 1978 Simple Minds recruited Duncan Barnwell as a second guitarist ( allowing for an optional two-guitar lineup while also enabling Burchill to play violin if he wanted to ).

The melody is generally assigned to the lead violin, while the remainder providing harmony, rhythm and some counterpoint ( the latter usually coming from the second violin or viola ).

A solo violin introduces the movement, while a horn solo above the gentle tones of a guitar and mandolin create a magical serenade character.

The fourth movement of An die Jugend ( 1909 ), for instance, uses two of Niccolò Paganini's Caprices for solo violin ( numbers 11 and 15 ), while the 1920 piece Piano Sonatina No. 6 ( Fantasia da camera super Carmen ) is based on themes from Georges Bizet's opera Carmen.

This progression culminates with the wind section playing the first melody while the first violin plays the second.

His first appearance on Sesame Street, after the Television Monster stint, was with guest star Itzhak Perlman playing the violin, while Telly played his tuba.

After leaving the Academy, German continued to teach at Wimbledon School, while also playing the violin in orchestras at various London theatres, including the Savoy Theatre.

He refused to touch the violin for quite a while.

Other well-known Berg compositions include the Lyric Suite ( 1926 ), which was later shown to employ elaborate cyphers to document a secret love affair ; the extraordinarily elaborate post-Mahlerian Three Pieces for Orchestra ( completed in 1915 but not performed until after Wozzeck ); and the Chamber Concerto ( Kammerkonzert, 1923 – 25 ) for violin, piano and 13 wind instruments: this latter is written so conscientiously that Pierre Boulez has called it " Berg's strictest composition " and it, too, is permeated by cyphers and posthumously disclosed hidden programs.

He also has an orange violin that spins for the fiddle solos.

In his A New History of the Double Bass, Paul Brun asserts, with many references, that the double bass has origins as the true bass of the violin family.

While the violin, viola, and cello all use friction pegs for gross tuning adjustments, the double bass has metal machine heads.

To a greater extent than classical violin playing, fiddle playing is characterized by a huge variety of ethnic or folk music traditions, each of which has its own distinctive sound.

The typical archtop guitar has a large, deep, hollow body whose form is much like that of a mandolin or violin family instrument.

The violin has come to be played in many non-Western music cultures all over the world.

The technique required for playing a viola has certain differences compared with that of a violin, partly because of its larger size: the notes are spread out farther along the fingerboard and often require different fingerings.

The most immediately noticeable adjustments that a player accustomed to playing violin has to make are to use wider-spaced fingerings.

The " frog " ( which holds the bowhair and adjusts its tension ) is also different from that of modern bows: whereas a violin bow frog has a " slide " ( often made of mother of pearl ), which pinches the hair and holds it flat and stationary across the frog, viol bows have an open frog that allows more movement of the hair.

Max Bruch wrote three violin concertos, but it is the first, in G minor, that has remained a firm favorite in the repertoire.

Since the Romantic era, the cello has received as much attention as the piano and violin as a concerto instrument, and many great Romantic and even more 20th century composers left examples.

The music has been lost, except for a leader violin part found in a private collection of band parts in 1999.

Schoenberg has also attracted at least one parodist: in 1924, Hans Eisler published Palmström ( Studies on 12-tone Rows ), in which a Sprechstimme vocalist, singing texts by Christian Morgenstern, parodies the musical lines of Pierrot to the accompaniment of flute ( or piccolo ), clarinet, violin ( or viola ), and violincello.

Star gives a ride to Kenny Frasier ( David Hayward ), who has just arrived in town carrying a violin case.

The viola d ' amore usually has six or seven playing strings, which are sounded by drawing a bow across them, just as with a violin.

Few of Kupkovič's pieces have been recorded, although a short piece for violin and piano from 1968, Souvenir, has been recorded several times, most recently by Gidon Kremer.

Traditional Tuareg music has two major components: the monochord violin anzad played often during night parties and a small tambour covered with goatskin called tende, performed during camel and horse races, and other festivities.

Legend has it that he tried to hide his pugilistic ambitions from his mother by carrying his boxing gloves inside his violin case.

In its most common form, it has a narrow boat-shaped body and 1-5 strings and is played on the arm or under the chin, like a violin.

Adopting a formula successfully employed by Mondonville a few years earlier, these pieces differ from trio sonatas in that the harpsichord is not simply there as basso continuo to accompany other instruments ( the violin, flute or viol ) playing the melody but has an equal part in the " concert " with them.

Once Marius has given his warning to Lestat not to go see them again and leaves on a short outing, Lestat takes Nicolas's old violin and plays for the King and Queen, awakening them.

Max Christian Friedrich Bruch ( 6 January 18382 October 1920 ), also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin repertory.