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Violin is also called fiddle and it is the smallest and high-pitched string instrument. It must be interesting to know the name of Violin maker is luthier.
How to hold a violin?
However, holding a violin varies form culture to culture but most common way is to support the violin with the help of left shoulder by holding the violin with the left side jaw resting on the chinrest of the violin.
Playing a violin
One cannot play a violin without a bow. Bow consists of a long stick and a ribbon of horsehair strung between both the ends.
For tone quality, rhythm, dynamics, articulation and changes in timbre, right arm and bow plays an important role. Since the violin has no frets, the player must know where he should exactly place the fingers on the strings to come up with right intonation.
Composers sometimes play open strings to bring the special effects. When open strings are played with a stopped note it generates a bagpipe like buzz often used by composers to create folk music.
Double stops and drones
To play a chord, two separate strings are stopped by the fingers and bowed simultaneously.
Vibrato
To produce Vibrato, figure, wrist and arm motion is a perfect combination. To achieve oscillation, rock the hand back at the wrist. This method is called hand vibrato. Modulate the pitch by rocking at the elbow; can help the musician to produce variety of tonal effects.
Vibrato Trill
One can also use Vibrato to produce fast trill.
Harmonics
To create harmonics, lightly touch the strings with a fingertip at a harmonic node.
Pizzicato
Pizzicato is the written music played by plucking the string with a finger of the right hand.
Col legno
col legno in the written music ; created by striking the string(s) with the stick of the bow. This method produces somewhat percussive sound that’s why this techniques in rarely used
. Different kinds of musical styles can be produced with the help of Violin : - Classical
- Jazz
- Indian classical music
- Folk music and fiddling