Violin

According to Wikipedia, free online website, Violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifth to the notes G, D’, A’ and E’’. These four strings produce a high pitched voice that makes violin become the highest pitch instrument in the string family, including viola, cello and double bass. Violin’s bow is a long narrow slightly incurved stick, with a band of horsehair stretched from end to end of the bowstick. However, beside the strings and the bow, violin also has other main parts that not less important. These parts are the front or the belly, then, there is the back. There are also the ribs, neck, finger board, peg box, scroll, bridge, tail piece, fine tuners and f-holes or sound box. The front, back, and ribs are joined together to form a hollow sound box. The sound box contains the sound post, a thin stick of wood wedged inside underneath the right side of the bridge and connecting the front and back of the violin. The bridge placed between the tail piece and the finger board on the front. The strings are fastened to the tailpiece, rest on the bridge, and then suspended over the fingerboard, and run to the pegbox. In this peg box, the strings are attached to tuning pegs that can be turned to change the pitch of the string. Other way, the player can also change the pitch using the fine tuners in the tail piece. The player makes different pitches by placing the left-hand fingers on the string and pressing against the fingerboard. The strings are set in vibration and produce sound when the player draws the bow across them at a right angle near the bridge.