Electric violins have come down in price, at least a little. Without mortgaging the house, you can get one of your own. Once the toy of rich professional musicians, the new wave of electrified strings is ready for prime time. Lots of colors and styles are available. There is likely one for you.
While the professional symphony has yet to embrace the electronic age, blue grass and jazz have taken to the electrified stringed instrument with glee. Finally the favored few stringed players can be amplified and heard over at outdoor venues and in concert with other, louder instruments.
The shapes of these violins might be similar to the wooden variety or something much more surreal. Because they can be formed from Lucite and high tech composites, they are more akin to modern sculpture than musical instruments.
Since violins have moved into the world of jazz and bluegrass as well as world music, they have had greater acceptance than in the past. The classical orchestra is slow to incorporate them, but soloists have made inroads in that direction.
But more than professionals can benefit from this move toward electrical innovation. What the keyboard did for the parent suffering through the first years of piano lessons can be had with these new stringed fiddles and cellos. Silence. Just plug the output into the headphones and the budding virtuoso can hear every note and you can hear none. A blessing indeed.
Maybe not everyone is equally ready to abandon the acoustic and head for the amplifier, but the positives are adding up on a daily basis. Just the fact that composites are more durable is a huge plus.
Weighing the pros and cons is a job best left to the consumer and his pocketbook or perhaps his sense of tradition. But make no mistake, you will be seeing more electric violins than ever before and one of them might just be yours.
While the professional symphony has yet to embrace the electronic age, blue grass and jazz have taken to the electrified stringed instrument with glee. Finally the favored few stringed players can be amplified and heard over at outdoor venues and in concert with other, louder instruments.
The shapes of these violins might be similar to the wooden variety or something much more surreal. Because they can be formed from Lucite and high tech composites, they are more akin to modern sculpture than musical instruments.
Since violins have moved into the world of jazz and bluegrass as well as world music, they have had greater acceptance than in the past. The classical orchestra is slow to incorporate them, but soloists have made inroads in that direction.
But more than professionals can benefit from this move toward electrical innovation. What the keyboard did for the parent suffering through the first years of piano lessons can be had with these new stringed fiddles and cellos. Silence. Just plug the output into the headphones and the budding virtuoso can hear every note and you can hear none. A blessing indeed.
Maybe not everyone is equally ready to abandon the acoustic and head for the amplifier, but the positives are adding up on a daily basis. Just the fact that composites are more durable is a huge plus.
Weighing the pros and cons is a job best left to the consumer and his pocketbook or perhaps his sense of tradition. But make no mistake, you will be seeing more electric violins than ever before and one of them might just be yours.
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