4/4 (Full Size) Hand-carved solid spruce top, solid maple back & sides
Beautiful satin antique finish
Maple fingerboard, chin rest and pegs, Alloy tailpiece with four integrated fine tuners
Includes: Brazil wood bow with unbleached genuine horsehair, a violin bridge, a quality rosin.The violin, sometimes known as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and highest-pitched instrument in the family in regular use.Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres. They are most prominent in the , both in ensembles (from to ) and as solo instruments and in many varieties of , including , and in . with solid bodies and are used in some forms of and , with the pickups plugged into and speakers to produce sound. Further, the violin has come to be played in many non-Western music cultures, including and . The name fiddle is often used regardless of the type of music played on it.The violin was first known in 16th-century , with some further modifications occurring in the 18th and 19th centuries to give the instrument a more powerful sound and projection. In Europe, it served as the basis for the development of other stringed instruments used in Western classical music, such as the viola