The double bass features many parts that are similar to members of the violin family including a bridge, f-holes, a tailpiece, a scroll and a sound post.

Sonata XI ( the Resurrection ) is a special case: in addition to a unique scordatura, the two inner strings of the violin are interchanged between the bridge and tailpiece of the instrument, thus attaining a tuning ( from top string to bottom string ) of G-g-D-d. Harmonia Artificiosa no.

A baroque violin is, in common usage, any violin whose neck, fingerboard, bridge, and tailpiece are of the type used during the baroque period.

)-- advocate a preference for a chin-free grip ( though L. Mozart offers the alternative of gripping the violin on the treble side of the tailpiece for those who cannot master the chin-free method ), as we see in virtually all iconography.

A well-set-up instrument from the violin family will have attention paid to the tuning of the afterlength, or string length on the tailpiece side of the bridge.

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

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, while it has ancient origins, acquired most of its modern characteristics in 16th-century Italy, with some further modifications occurring in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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.

Evegeni Dubovskoi conducted an exceptionally large orchestra, one containing excellent soloists -- the violin solos by the concertmaster, Guy Lumia, were especially fine -- but one in which the core of traveling players and the body of men added locally had not had time to achieve much unity.

He is one of the few men in history who plays jazz on a violin.

This violin, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, may have been part of a set made for the marriage of Philip II of Spain to Elisabeth of Valois in 1559, which would make it one of the earliest known violins in existence.

They include two concertos for pianoforte, one in C major and one in B flat major, ( both 1773 ); a concerto for organ in C Major in two movements, ( the middle movement is missing from the autograph score, or perhaps, it was an improvised organ solo ) ( also 1773 ); two concertante works: a concerto for oboe, violin and cello in D major ( 1770 ), and a flute and oboe concerto in C major ( 1774 ).

While most traditional Spanish style builders use the one piece neck / heel block, Fleta a prominent Spanish builder used a dovetail joint due to the influence of his early training in violin making.

As the guitar is tuned to one octave below that of the violin, the same size gut could be used for the 1st strings of both instruments.

Larger works that incorporate the double bass include Beethoven's Septet in E-flat major, Op. 20, one of his most famous pieces during his lifetime, which consists of clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello, and bass.

When the clarinetist Ferdinand Troyer commissioned a work from Franz Schubert for similar forces, he added one more violin for his Octet in F major, D. 803.

Over the centuries, Europe continued to have two distinct types of fiddles: one, relatively square-shaped, held in the arms, became known as the lira da braccio ( arm viol ) family and evolved into the violin ; the other, with sloping shoulders and held between the knees, was the lira da gamba ( leg viol ) group.

" The following year, 1931, Boris de Schloezer also expressed the opinion that one could write for the gramophone or for the wireless just as one can for the piano or the violin ( Battier 2007, 190 ).

One memorable scene shows Paganini's adversaries sabotaging his violin before a high-profile performance, causing all strings but one to break during the concert.

In hand vibrato, the player applies a gentle motion to one end of the pan flute ( usually the high end ) in much the same way as the violin vibrato is achieved by rocking the hand from the wrist.

This tuning is exactly one fifth below the violin, so that they have three strings in common — G, D, and A — and is one octave above the cello.

Herschel moved to Sunderland in 1761 when Charles Avison immediately engaged him as first violin and soloist for his Newcastle orchestra, where he played for one season.

" Tork recorded a second set of demos in New York City, but little is known about these ( other than the fact that one track was a yet another version of " Pleasant Valley Sunday " with an unknown rock band, and featured a violin solo ).

A concerto ( from the, plural concerti or, often, the anglicised form concertos ) is a musical composition usually composed in four parts or movements, in which ( usually ) one solo instrument ( for instance, a piano, violin, cello or flute ) is accompanied by an orchestra.

Weber was also notable as one of the first conductors to conduct without a piano or violin.

Ingres's well-known passion for playing the violin gave to the French language a colloquialism, " violon d ' Ingres ", meaning a second skill beyond the one by which a person is mainly known.

Many contemporary string players vary the pitch from below, only up to the nominal note and not above it, although great violin pedagogues of the past such as Carl Flesch and Joseph Joachim explicitly referred to vibrato as a movement towards the bridge, meaning upwards in pitch ,— and the cellist Diran Alexanian, in his 1922 treatise Traité théorique et pratique du Violoncelle, shows how one should practice vibrato as starting from the note and then moving upwards in a rhythmic motion.

Balin sang on one song, " Caroline ," and in addition to Kantner and Slick the band consisted of David Freiberg ( keyboards, bass ), Craig Chaquico ( lead guitar ), Pete Sears ( bass, keyboards ), John Barbata ( drums ) and Papa John Creach ( electric violin ).