Chin Rest Material - What is the chin rest
of the violin made from?
Not exact matches
If a
violin had been
made in the first place by Antonio Stradivari himself and if skilled hands had played upon it the compositions
of the masters, any cheap endeavor to
make it hiccup with syncopated jazz would be resented.
She
made it through a tough year
of fourth grade, participated in an overnight trip to the Museum
of Science (without me or Jon as a chaperone), and signed up for
violin and
made it through the concert (despite never practicing #badTigerMom).
Of course, dancing or violin lessons will not make a great dancer or violinist of the child which parents are completely tone - deaf or have «two left legs»
Of course, dancing or
violin lessons will not
make a great dancer or violinist
of the child which parents are completely tone - deaf or have «two left legs»
of the child which parents are completely tone - deaf or have «two left legs».
It's a little more expensive than most
of the other smaller
violin models, but it really
makes up for it in sound quality and beauty.
Body Material - While most traditional
violins are
made from wood, not all
of them are nowadays.
In an MRI machine, a powerful magnetic field causes protons in the body to line up like
violin strings under tension, then a pulse
of energy plucks those «strings,»
making them hum.
To study how
violin contours change over time, Dan Chitwood, a plant biologist and avid viola player at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri, analyzed photographs
of more than 7000 auctioned
violins made between the years
of 1560 and 2003.
A cranky biochemist named Joseph Nagyvary claims to
make violins that sounds as magnifient as the legendary Cremonese master's - and sells them at a fraction
of the cost.
Evolutionary tree spanning four centuries
of violin shape shows how the maestro
of violin -
making came out on top
Yehudi Menuhin recently tested this prototype
violin made almost entirely
of carbon fibre by researchers from the French government research centre, the CNRS.
The decision she
made ultimately would help her to rise to rock stardom, playing electric
violin with some
of today's top bands.
I love this so much!!!!!! My daughter plays
violin & is in Honors Orchestra at her school & she wants to
make one
of these.
I want all my life to marry a Mongol and am a defender
of human rights, I have had my brain robbed and even then murdered after being used to fight IS (ISIS) I believe in trying to
make m / oney grow and take
violin lessons I think worldwide genocide awful and have complained to the UN.
I don't complain that you practice your
violin at three in the morning, that you
make a mess
of my rooms -
From Slamdance, we have three documentaries — The Modern Jungle (which analyzes the relationship between filmmaker and subject among dirt - poor peasants in Chiapas), Strad Style (about an unlikely
violin maker and his quest to recreate a renowned 18th - century instrument) and Supergirl (a tale
of the strongest 12 - year - old girl in the world)-- and three narratives — Dave
Made a Maze (a demented fantasy about an out -
of - control labyrinth), Future ’38 (a clever sci - fi look forward from 1938 to the year 2018) and Weather House (a hypnotic meditation on the end
of the world).
She is reminiscent
of every black widow woman from every film noir ever
made: Lana Turner wrapping John Garfield around her little finger in «The Postman Always Rings Twice» or Barbara Stanwyck playing Fred MacMurray like a
violin in «Double Indemnity.»
This legendary
violin is called the Amati Maladetto: Amati being the name
of the family who
made it and Maladetto, an Italian word which means cursed or damned.
Writing it was also the chance she had been looking for to do some very Stanislevsky-esque research — and
make a
violin of her own.
In her book, The Battle Hymn
of the Tiger Mother, author Amy Chua chronicles her struggle to be the ultimate «Tiger Mom», pushing her daughters for As in school, banning TV and video games, and
making sure they grew up practicing the
violin for hours every day.
Music -
making is everywhere, and a visit to the Cape Verde Islands would not be complete without experiencing the Cape Verdean morna music in Mindelo, a combination
of guitar and
violin music often put to lyrics about love.
A forerunner in the expansion
of the
violin beyond its classical and «wood - bound» tradition, Todd Reynolds electrifies in concert, weaving together composed and improvised segments, and
making use
of computer technology and digital loops to sculpt his sounds in real time, seamlessly integrating minimalist, pop, Jazz, Indian, African, Celtic and indigenous folk music into his own sonic blend.
Initially trained in
violin and sculpting, Anderson pursued a variety
of performance art projects in New York during the 1970s,
making particular use
of language, technology, and visual imagery.
A move from western Massachusetts to the UK in 2005 led Corsano to concentrate on his solo music, an always - spontaneously - composed amalgam
of extended techniques for drum set and non-percussion instruments
of his own
making incorporated into his kit: e.g.
violin strings stretched across drum heads, modified reed instruments that transform the drums into resonators which can, in turn, be used to incite strips
of metal to react to the drum membranes» Chladni - plate - like modes
of vibration, etc..
All hail the death
of «still lifes,» paintings which incorporated over-ornamentalized baked clay pottery, flowers sheared and arranged in water at their height
of bloom, damask and linen
made from once - living plants, mandolins and
violins set out with all their elaborate fittings and gold filigree — once trees; -LSB-...]
In 2005, Olafur and classical
violin maker Hans Johannsson began work on the development
of a new instrument, with the objective to reinterpret the traditions
of 17th - and 18th - century
violin making using today's technology and a contemporary visual aesthetic.
For this 2002 work, Marclay sampled more than 700 Hollywood films featuring images
of hands on keyboards, horns and
violins, as well as men and women singing, dancing and
making other noises.
Pavlisko layered Harold «Doc» Edgerton's stop - motion photographs with vintage NBA posters, and the consequent accumulation
of balls, baskets, and explosions (to which Pavlisko added comically melodramatic sculptures
of drooping
violins)
made wry work
of athletic machismo.
ARTISTS: Tony Conrad, Jutta Koether, and John Miller (sometimes featuring Greg Parma Smith) SOUND: Distorted, at times minimal instrumental music fusing Conrad's
violin with Koether's Euro - inflected synths and Miller's looping guitar WHAT THEY DO: A real thinking man's art supergroup, XXX Macarena unites three artistic visionaries who each come from a different corner
of the art world — Conrad is a legend in avant - garde video and sound art (he
made the landmark, epilepsy - inducing film The Flicker in 1966), Koether is a hypercerebral painter, and Miller is a multitalented artist and critic who teaches at Columbia.
Doug Martin working on one
of the
violins that he
made from balsa wood in the kitchen
of his apartment in Eliott, Maine.
Animal glue (
made from the boiling
of animal tissue and bone) is apparently the best adhesive for fixing musical instruments
made from wood such as
violins and pianos.
That said, don't even think
of getting these headphones if you like listening to classical or instrumental music, as you'll be left with rolled off highs that
make violins and cymbals sound dull and lifeless.