Violin (disambiguation)

Violin (disambiguation)

A violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths.

Violin may also refer to:

Animals

* Violin beetle, species of ground beetles

Entertainment

* "Violin (novel)", novel by Anne Rice
* "Nude with Violin", 1950s play by Noel Coward
* "Rothschild's Violin", opera by Veniamin Fleishman
* "The Red Violin", 1998 film by François Girard
* "The Steamroller and the Violin", 1960 short film by Andrei Tarkovsky

Locations

* Pulau Biola, island off the coast of Singapore that is also known as "Violin Island"

Mathematics

* Violin plot, box plot that illustrates probability density function

Medicine

* [http://www.violinet.org/ VIOLIN] , Vaccine Investigation and Online Information Network

Music

Instruments

* Violin family, family of string based instruments developed in sixteenth century Italy
* Violin octet, family of string based instruments developed in twentieth century United States of America
* Bass violin,
* Baritone violin, violin variant either one octave below convention or the third largest member of the violin octet family
* Baroque violin, violin whose design is based in the baroque period
* Electric violin, electrical variant of the standard violin
* Five string violin, five string variant of the violin
* Kit violin, small violin designed to fit in a pocket
* Nail violin, instrument categorised as a friction idiophone
* Stroh violin, violin that uses metal resonators or metal horns to amplify sounds
* Tenor violin, instrument with a range between a cello and a viola

Albums and songs

* "Violin (album)", album by violinst Vanessa-Mae
* "The Violin Player", album by violinist Vanessa-Mae
* "Sounding the New Violin", album of collected twentieth century violin works
* "Who Touched My Violin String", album by Zhou Bichang
* "1000 no Violin", single by The Blue Hearts
* "Love Is Like a Violin", single by Tír na nÓg
* "Violin", a children's song by alternative rock group They Might Be Giants on their album No!

Other

* Violin authentication, process of determining the maker and date of a violin
* Violin concerto, concerto written for solo violinists and orchestra
* Violin sonata, sonata solo violin musical composition
* List of compositions for violin and orchestra
* List of violinists
* One Thousand Violins, an eighties indie-pop group

ee also

* Fiddle


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