Our favorite, the Realist RV-4 Pro E Series Acoustic/Electric 4-String Violin, can be played as either an acoustic or an electric violin. If you’d like to learn more about Realist’s RV-4 or ...

Older versions of the instrument only had three strings, and were known as 'violetta'. Range A violin can play from the G below middle C, known as G3, up to a high E two octaves above its highest ...

Those depths, though, are impossible on the violin. And the character of the piece isn’t exactly a natural fit for the instrument’s bright high E string. Gandelsman took steps throughout the ...

During a pause in Chen’s part, he gave an extra violin string he was carrying to Lin, who replaced the E string. You can watch the incident here (the string break happens around the 19-second ...

Sponsor Message "This instrument is much more mellow, round sound, very silvery on the E string but I feel like the G string is very chocolaty," Regni said, as she demonstrated on the violin.