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Thomann Octave Mandolin

A short film about the Croatian violin maker, Ivan Hus. Entirely black and white, with little sound. Absolutely captivating. 

ORIGINS OF THE VIOLIN!!! ☕️...WHAT!!!! READ 👉🏾 The image is from a church in 👉🏾Kiev 👈🏾called St Sophia Cathedral. The Violin, the archetypal Goje The Goje is a one string fiddle from Nigeria. Snakeskin covers a gourd bowl to create a membrane head similar to that of a banjo. Horsehair strings are suspended on a bridge. The Goje is played with a bow…In Ethiopia and Eritrea, one finds similar traditional fiddles that are played exactly like the violin and which produce similar sounds. These traditional fiddles come from stone-age Africa. Before the first modern Europe was born, before any of the famous million dollar fiddle manufacturers were ever conceived, fiddles, the famous violins, have been created and used widely right across the African continent. Fiddles probably came into Europe by way of the waves of Moorish incursions which implanted their populations and culture in the European landscape, ages ago. #blackfacts #blackculture #violin #stringedinstrument #stringedinstruments #blackpeoplebelike

TwoSetViolin get roasted for mocking the recorder. Great video! 

A young Chloe Chua plays the ending of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto! Watch other videos from this young lady-- she has a promising career ahead of her. 

One of the most beautiful stringed instruments, the lute. John Dowland used this often to accompany his beautiful songs. here is “Lachrimae” (something to do with tears and crying), played by Christopher Morrongiello for The Met. 

Cellist Pablo Ferrández explains the methods you can use to sound like a soloist. Some excellent advice here, useful and interesting even to those who do not play the cello. 

Wonderful String Quintets from Luigi Boccherini (1743- 1805).