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Big English-French dictionary. 2003.
Big English-French dictionary. 2003.
Violin octet — Classification Bowed string instruments Related instruments Violin Viola Cello Double bass The violin octet is a family of stringed instruments developed in the 20th century primarily under the direction of the American luthier … Wikipedia
Violin — Infobox Instrument name=Violin names=Fiddle, de: Violine or Geige, fr: Violon, it: Violino classification=String instrument (bowed) range= related= *Violin family (viola, cello) *Viol family (includes double bass) musicians= *List of violinists… … Wikipedia
Violin construction and mechanics — A violin consists of a body or corpus, a neck, a bridge, a soundpost, four strings, and various fittings. The fittings are the tuning pegs, tailpiece and tailgut, endpin, possibly one or more fine tuners on the tailpiece, and perhaps a chinrest,… … Wikipedia
half — half1 W1S1 [ha:f US hæf] predeterminer, pron, adj [only before noun] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(50%)¦ 2¦(most of)¦ 3¦(time)¦ 4¦(combination)¦ 5 half a dozen 6 half a/the chance 7 half an eye/ear 8 be half the battle 9 half a minute/moment/second etc … Dictionary of contemporary English
Bass violin — is the generic modern term used to denote various 16th and 17th century forms of bass instruments of the violin (i.e. viola da braccio ) family. They were the direct ancestor of the modern cello. [Baines] Bass violins were usually somewhat larger … Wikipedia
Nail violin — The nail violin is a musical instrument which was invented by German violinist Johann Wilde in 1740. Wilde was inspired to create the instrument when he accidentally drew his bow across a metal peg, which produced a musical sound. The instrument… … Wikipedia
nail violin — noun : an 18th century musical instrument that consists of a semicircular sounding board with nails or iron pins of graduated size driven along its edge and that is played with a violin bow * * * a musical instrument consisting of a wooden… … Useful english dictionary
Viola — Infobox Instrument color1=#FFD700 color2=#FFEC8B name=Viola italian name=Viola names= fr. alto; de. Bratsche classification=String instrument (bowed) range= related= *Violin family (violin, cello) *Viol family (includes double bass) musicians= *… … Wikipedia
Cello — This article is about the stringed musical instrument. For other uses, see Cello (disambiguation). Cello Cello, front and side view String Other names Violoncello Hornbos … Wikipedia
stringed instrument — a musical instrument having strings as the medium of sound production, played with the fingers or with a plectrum or a bow: The guitar, the harp, and the violin are stringed instruments. * * * Any musical instrument that produces sound by the… … Universalium
Scale (string instruments) — For the musical (rather than instrumental) scale, see Pythagorean tuning. In a string instrument, the scale length (often simply called the scale ) is the sounding length of the strings. On instruments with strings which are not stopped (harp,… … Wikipedia