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The playing ranges of the instruments in the violin family overlap each other, but the tone quality and physical size of each distinguishes them from one another. The ranges are as follows: violin: G 3 to E 7 (practical, notes up to A7 are possible); viola: C 3 to A 6 (conservative); violoncello: C 2 to A 5 (conservative); and double-bass: E 1 to C 5 (slightly expanded from conservative estimate).
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The violin, sometimes referred as a fiddle, [a] is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino piccolo and the pochette , but these are virtually unused.
The origin of the violin family is obscure. [1] [2] Some say that the bow was introduced to Europe from the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic world, [3] [4] [5] while others say the bow was not introduced from the Middle East but the other way around, and that the bow may have originated from more frequent contact between Northern and Western Europe.
Papavrami was born in Tirana in 1971 and started to play the violin at the age of four or five. [2] [3] He studied violin with his father, Robert Papavrami.[2] [1] At age 8, he performed Pablo de Sarasate's Airs Bohémiens with the Tirana Philharmonic Orchestra, and three years later performed Paganini's first violin concerto.
Often considered the most eminent violin maker of the family, [3] [4] he improved the model adopted by the rest of the Amatis and produced instruments capable of yielding greater power of tone. [5] His pattern was unusually small, but he also made a wider model now known as the "Grand Amati", which have become his most sought-after violins.
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