violins
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How To Make A Tiny Popsicle Stick Violin To Play When Your Friends Start Whining
Video: It took Antonio Stradivari months to create one of his instrumental masterpieces, but you can make yourself a tiny wooden violin in just a few hours using Popsicle sticks, toothpicks, coffee stirrers and string. It can’t be used to play Mozart, but you can still pretend to play it whenever your friends start complaining…
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This Is What A 3D-Printed Acoustic Violin Sounds Like
We’ve seen 3D-printed violins before, but they used an electric pickup to amplify the sound of the resonating strings. Using a newly formulated white resin, Formlabs instead 3D-printed an acoustic violin that relies on its shape, internal chambers and the material its made from to produce an authentic violin sound.
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A Laser Violin Would Have Surely Blown Amadeus’s Mind
Playing a violin requires far more finesse than just dragging a bow across its strings. There are subtle nuances in motion, pressure and speed required that take years to master. Or, you can wait for Dylan Menzies to perfect his easy-to-play optical O-Bow and just skip all the rehearsals.
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iViolin Speakers: Add A Stradivarius To Your Home Theatre
A Chinese violin maker has realised that the resonating chamber that gives the violin its full rich sound could also double as a stylish speaker. So they stuck a driver inside one of their stringed instruments, and dubbed it the iViolin.