Informative Essay On Violins
Albert Einstein once said, A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit, and a violin; what else
does a man need to be happy? The violin produces a very beautiful sound which
depends on neither the violinist nor the violin. Its long history consists of its known
creators and musicians, the process of its creation, and the types of violins.
The people that make violins are called luthiers (luth ee ers). The earliest known
Italian luthiers were Andrea Amati (1505 ?), Gasparo da Salo (1540 09), and
Giovanni Maggini (1579 30). Most people agree that Amati is the first luthier.
Furthermore, some composers were Arcangelo Corelli (1653 13) who was known for
developing the concerto grosso , a trio, which has two violins and a cello, is
accompanied by an orchestra. Niccolo Paganini (1782 40) was called The Devil s
Violinist for his extreme virtuosity and Antonio Vivaldi (1678 41) is most famous for
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Luthiers create the strings out of gut wound with aluminum, silver, steel, or perlon,
nylon, or wire. They use quarter sawn maple for the back, ribs/sides, and neck of
the violin. The linings are made of spruce, willow, purfling (different woods), or
fiber (thick paper, cardboard). Luthiers use ebony for the fingerboard, pegs, plastic for
the chinrest, or metal for the tailpiece, fine tuners and maple wood for the bridge. The
parts of the violin are the scroll, the pegs for tightening the strings and tuning, the
pegbox, the nut, the neck, the fingerboard for playing notes, the upper bout, the
waist, the f holes for amplified sound, the lower bout, the bridge to convey the
vibrations from the string to the body, the fine tuners to tune, the tailpiece to hold the
strings, the chinrest to balance (the violin) with your chin, the shoulder rest to
balance with your shoulder, and the sound post to transfer the vibrations from the
front to the back of the