Violin
The violin (also known as a fiddle) is the smallest and highest pitched stringed instrument in common use. It has an hour glass shaped body made of varnished wood, possibly maple. 4 strings attached at the peg box run down an ebony fingerboard, over the wooden bridge to the anchoring tailpiece.
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The violin is a wooden chordophone which is the smallest and highest-pitched instrument in regular use in the violin family. There are smaller violin-type instruments like the violino piccolo and the pochette, but these are rarely used. Most violins have a hollow wooden body, commonly have four strings but (sometimes five), usually tuned in perfect fifths with notes G3, D4, A4, E5, and are most commonly played by drawing a bow across the strings. The violin can also be played by plucking the strings with the fingers and, in specialized cases, by striking the strings with the wooden side of the bow.
Violins feature in a wide variety of musical genres including, but not limited to, classical, folk, country, bluegrass and jazz.
No details are available about this violin and how it made its journey into our collection.
Busselton Historical Society
Busselton Historical Society
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