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  2. Violin technique - Wikipedia

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    Left hand finger patterns, after George Bornoff First position fingerings. While beginning violin students often rely on tapes or markers placed on the fingerboard for correct placement of the left-hand fingers, more proficient and experienced players place their fingers on the right spots without such indications but from practice and experience.

  3. Violin - Wikipedia

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    The extra strings on such violins typically are lower in pitch than the G-string; these strings are usually tuned (going from the highest added string to the lowest) to C, F, and B ♭. If the instrument's playing length, or string length from nut to bridge, is equal to that of an ordinary full-scale violin; i.e., a bit less than 13 inches (33 ...

  4. List of musical pieces which use extended techniques

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    The strings play col legno, striking the wood of their bows on the strings, in addition to numerous other techniques (Boyden 2001). François-Adrien Boieldieu; Le calife de Bagdad (opera, 1800), strings play col legno (Favre and Betzwieser 2001). Benjamin Britten; Passacaglia from Peter Grimes, rehearsal 6, "agitato", (pp. 16–17 of the score).

  5. Standard tuning - Wikipedia

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    The most popular bowed strings used nowadays belong to the violin family; together with their respective standard tunings, they are: Violin – G 3 D 4 A 4 E 5 (ascending perfect fifths, starting from G below middle C) Viola – C 3 G 3 D 4 A 4 (a perfect fifth below a violin's standard tuning) Cello – C 2 G 2 D 3 A 3 (an octave lower than ...

  6. Violin construction and mechanics - Wikipedia

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    A violin consists of a body or corpus, a neck, a finger board, a bridge, a soundpost, four strings, and various fittings.The fittings are the tuning pegs, tailpiece and tailgut, endpin, possibly one or more fine tuners on the tailpiece, and in the modern style of playing, usually a chinrest, either attached with the cup directly over the tailpiece or to the left of it.

  7. Double stop - Wikipedia

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    In music, a double stop is the technique of playing two notes simultaneously on a stringed instrument such as a violin, a viola, a cello, or a double bass. On instruments such as the Hardanger fiddle it is common and often employed. In performing a double stop, two separate strings are bowed or plucked simultaneously.

  8. String instrument - Wikipedia

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    Even though the piano strikes the strings, the use of felt hammers means that the sound that is produced can nevertheless be mellow and rounded, in contrast to the sharp attack produced when a very hard hammer strikes the strings. Violin family string instrument players are occasionally instructed to strike the string with the stick of the bow ...

  9. String section - Wikipedia

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    The string sections are at the front of the orchestra, arrayed in a semicircle around the conductor's podium. The string section of an orchestra is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family. It normally consists of first and second violins, violas, cellos, and double basses. It is the most numerous group in the standard ...

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