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The instrument I chose was a violin. The reason I 

chose the violin is because the violin always 

caught my attention and as a young child I had a 

toy violin that I loved to play. Also, I want to 

learn more about it.

The instrument family the violin belongs to is 

the strings family. The strings are the largest 

family of instruments in the orchestra. The 

belly, the sound post, and the bass bar are 

made of spruce, a light but strong softwood. 

The back, ribs, neck, pegbox, scroll, and 

bridge are of maple, a hardwood. The 

fingerboard of a violin is of ebony. The strings 

are made from metal. The hair of the bow is 

traditionally horse hair. The hair must be 

frequently rubbed with rosin in order to grip 

the strings and cause them to vibrate. 

The oldest violin is dated back to 1564. It was 

named Charles IX, which Andrea Amati created. 

The violin is hard to date back when it was 

invented because many historians see that 

various thins resemble a violin in different 

countries. The violin has changed overtime. In 

the baroque era, the violin had a neck whose 

surface was almost completely in line with the 

ribs. The fingerboard was compose of a wedge 

that lifted the strings much higher. the modern 

form of the violin is a lower cleft in the design 

of the fingerboard, which provides a straight 

plank of ebony. 

Sound is made on a violin by dragging a 

bow across the strings, which vibrates, 

making the vibration travel through the 

bridge into the top plate. The violin is 

the smallest in its family, but produces 

the highest sound.

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