An electric violin is a violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound. The term most properly refers to an instrument intentionally made to be...
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instruments. Violins are also important in many varieties of folk music, including country music, bluegrass music, and in jazz. Electric violins with solid...
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Mia Asano (category Electric violinists)
touring group which performs hybrid orchestral arrangements using electric violin and electric bagpipe. These collaborations are distinctive for their use of...
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Jazz violin is the use of the violin or electric violin to improvise solo lines. Early jazz violinists included: Eddie South, who played violin with Jimmy...
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and is tuned C G D A E. Stroh Violin Electric 5-string violin Luthier Ravanahatha Boyden, David The History of Violin Playing from its origins to 1761...
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Winthrop Wood is an American electric violinist and the founder of Wood Violins, a company that manufactures his electric violin designs. His music education...
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Jean-Luc Ponty (section Success with the violin)
considered a pioneer of jazz-rock, particularly for his use of the electric violin starting in the 1970s. He rose to prominence for his collaborations...
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after the advent of electric instruments, such as the electric guitar, electric violin, electric organ and synthesizer. Acoustic string instrumentations...
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of sounds and possibilities matching that of the electric guitar, electric bass and electric violin. Also, five-string and six-string models (not generally...
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1986–present) Touring musicians Larry Campbell – rhythm guitar, vocals, violin, lap steel guitar (2011–present) Teresa Williams – vocals (2011–present)...
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Some electric guitars Most bass guitars Electric upright bass Some Electric ukuleles Few electric mandolins Most electric violins Most electric sitars...
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Lindsey Stirling (category Electric violinists)
other violins: a $40 eBay violin "Ingrid", a purple Wood Viper violin "Viper" and a Yamaha Silent violin "Steampunk". "Steampunk" was her first electric violin...
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guitarist until middle school, when he discovered his proficiency on the violin. He studied with Isidor Saslav, then concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony...
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including Chad Quist, Joel Hoekstra, and even Kate Russo Thompson on electric violin as 2nd guitarist. In 1999 the band released the album Do What You Love...
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This is a list of violinists notable for their work with electric violin. Ed Alleyne-Johnson Laurie Anderson Emilie Autumn Balabhaskar Jenny Bae Billy...
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A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin (occasionally, two or more violins) and instrumental ensemble (customarily orchestra). Such works have...
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would lose the audience's excitement. "Factory Chase" features an electric violin played by Ross Levinson. The track "Love Scene" is a softer piano-based...
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Jared Stewart – keyboards (1983) Jamii Szmadzinski - electric violin (1983-1986) Jerry Goodman – violin Mark Martinez – bass 1976 – Watercourse Way (re-mixed...
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musician. A multi-instrumentalist, he was known primarily for playing the electric violin and mandolin, as well as the harmonica, keyboards, glockenspiel, and...
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joined the Liverpool Schools Symphony Orchestra. He built his own electric violin at the age of 13 which was made of plywood and pine. At 16 Alleyne-Johnson's...
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Nigel Kennedy (category Electric violinists)
York's Carnegie Hall. He made his recording debut in 1984 with Elgar's Violin Concerto. His subsequent recording of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons with the...
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Goodman (born March 16, 1949) is an American violinist known for playing electric violin with The Flock and the jazz fusion ensemble Mahavishnu Orchestra. Jerry...
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on soprano and tenor, engaging Shankar's ten-string double-necked electric violin in some complex interplay on the title track." All compositions by...
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use electric guitar for the high range, and thus deploy violin only exceptionally. Nevertheless, some rock musicians have experimented with violin in a...
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the Uninvited (2002) – with Zoomer (electric violin, viola) Heads or Tales (2003) - with Jamie Notarthomas (violin) Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure...
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Zappa Records. Shankar performed acoustic and 5-string Barcus Berry electric violin. The album was produced by Frank Zappa. He also served as the album's...
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asked if U2 had any need for a violin on their next album. Wickham spent half a day in the studio recording an electric violin track that became the final...
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classical and jazz violin at Indiana University. Before relocating to the New York City area in 1998, he recorded a jazz fusion cd Electric/Blue, playing primarily...
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Lance D'Boyle (drums); Richard Famous (guitar/vocals); Nil (tapes/bass/electric violin); and Bernhardt Rebours (bass/synthesiser/piano). Poison Girls formed...
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electrically amplified instruments like the solid body electric guitar or the electric violin, and the piano which uses only a sound board instead. Drumhead...
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