Fig. 1 illustrates a section taken through the body of the violin A., The strings are indicated at B. The disks G, with which the bowing is done, are an inch in diameter and % of an inch in thickness.

Older versions of the instrument only had three strings, and were known as 'violetta'. Range A violin can play from the G below middle C, known as G3, up to a high E two octaves above its highest ...

She opens with the New York premiere of a new work by Che Buford inspired by spirituals, followed by Brahms' beautiful Violin Sonata in G Major and Poulenc's Violin Sonata, with its touches of ...