Violin Construction and Tone

Violin is one of a family of stringed instrument to another ie, viola, cello and contrabass. The bow fiddle (bow) violin consists of a stick, approximately 75 cm long, with a horse hairs stretched between the two ends of the bow stick. Construction found in the entire family stringed instrument is essentially no different from a violin construction.

In detail, the parts of the violin include:

a. Table / Belly
b. Ribs, or side board separates the front of the board (table) with the rear boards.
c. Neck, the neck between the head (peg box) and the body (table) violin.
d. Peg box, tuning box located at the head.
e. Scroll, ornate carving on the end of the head that resembles a roll of cloth.
f. Tail, the fastening end of the strings in the lower abdomen (table).
g. Bridge, the chip voltage divider strings located between the tail and the nut or at the base of the peg box limit.
h. Fingerboard, ie field located at the front of the neck, stretching to the mid belly.
i. Sound hole.

On the belly there are two dynamic mark-shaped earpiece Forte. Violin has four strings with different diameters. At first, violin strings made ​​of animal gut, but at the present time has been replaced by a thin strand of steel wire. For large diameter strings coated by silver sort of rolls. String with the largest diameter tuned for tone G (intervals 4 below C).

Numbering violin strings from the bottom so that the strings are usually strings to-4 or G. 3rd string below, tuned one Kwint higher to read D. Two other strings tuned below the Kwint up the tone A and tone for the second string to the first string E.

Stringed violin was originally made ​​from animal intestines. In order to produce a loud sound then in modern times with strings made ​​of steel manufacturing process uses advanced technology.