Violins

Strings

Musical Theory and Technique

This Side of Sanity

    The violin is a string instrument.

    The violin is a stringed instrument played with a bow, having four strings tuned at intervals of a fifth, an unfretted fingerboarrd, and a shallower body than the viol, and capable of great flexibility in range, tone, and dynamics. Also informally called a “fiddle”.

    Range: The violin has a range of G3 to E6 (approximately 200 Hz to 1,300 Hz, with overtones to 10 KHz).

    General MIDI Level 1 Sound Set Program Channel Number: decimal 41 or hexadecimal 0x28. (See General MIDI Level 1 Sound Set.)

    Average Power: The average power of a violin is about 0.1 Watts and the average power of a violin played pianissimo is about 0.001 Watts.

    The word “violin” comes from the Italian word “violino” which is the diminutive of “viola” meaning viola.