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An electric violin is a violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound. The term most properly refers to an instrument intentionally made to be electrified with built-in pickups, usually with a solid body .
Mark Winthrop Wood is an American electric violinist and the founder of Wood Violins, a company that manufactures his electric violin designs. His music education program, Electrify Your Symphony, has been featured on news programs nationwide. [1]
He was formerly first violinist with the Turtle Island String Quartet, a member of the Terry Riley Trio with composer Terry Riley and a long-time guest artist with pianist Jim Brickman. He is notable not only for his development and use of the electric 6-string violin, but also for what he terms “progressive string playing”, an evolution of ...
This is a list of violinists notable for their work with electric violin This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
An electric violin with a resonating body that produces listening-level sound independently of the electric elements can be called an electro-acoustic violin. To be effective as an acoustic violin, electro-acoustic violins retain much of the resonating body of the violin, and often resemble an acoustic violin or fiddle.
The song was eventually covered by more than 800 artists. Thhree albums were released by the duo on Hickory Records, only one being released before they split up. The first was Rusty and Doug Sing Louisiana Man (LPM 103) in 1961. Kershaw (Genus Cambarus) (LPS 163) was released in 1972 and was a double LP.
A SpaceX astronaut has helped take music to new heights, recording a very special song in space to support kids in need. The Polaris Program said it has teamed up with St. Jude Children’s ...
He is one half of the electric violin band FUSE with Linzi Stoppard. [2] In 2010, Lee set a Guinness World Record for "world's fastest violinist" by playing "Flight of the Bumblebee" in 64.21 seconds, [3] [failed verification] and later set the record for "fastest electric violinist" in 2013. He had also previously held the Guinness World ...