Vibgyor Yelahanka
would like to share some unknown facts about the musical instruments. Every
instrument that we use has some history that has various facts which would
surprise us. Vibgyor Yelahanka shares
with you some unknown facts about a Violin.
Here are some interesting and
unknown facts about a violin you might have ever known. The term violin comes
from the Medieval Latin word vitula,
which means a stringed instrument. A modern violin was designed in the 1500’s by Andrea
Amati, and is typically comprised of maple wood.
Violins are known to come in a variety of different sizes to suit every player’s height and size. If you are looking to
teach your child to learn a violin, Vibgyor Yelahanka suggests you can start learning violin at a
young age with a 1/32 or 1/16 size. The
most expensive violin in the world was made by Giuseppe Guarneri in
1741. The bows of a violin contain 150 to 200 hairs which can be made up
of a variety of materials including nylon and horse hair.
Vibgyor Yelahanka found out that the violin strings were first made of sheep gut
(commonly known as catgut), which was stretched, dried, and twisted. Other
materials violin strings have been made out of include: solid steel, stranded
steel, or various synthetic materials, wound with various metals, and sometimes
plated with silver.
You would be surprised
to know that the
world’s largest playable violin was constructed by 15 dedicated violin makers
from Markneukirchen, Germany. It is 4.27 meters tall and 5.22 meters wide
and sounds 3 times lower than a conventional violin.
To all those who love
playing a violin, have you ever thought that what would you do when you don’t
have regular strings available for your violin? Well, Vibgyor Yelahanka has
found you a solution. You can separate strands of hair and glued them together to create a similar feel to
metal wound strings. It is kind of strange and also very impressive at the same
time!
