Significance of National Violin Day on 13 December
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Every year 13 December is celebrated as National Violin Day. You might be surprised to know why a day is kept reserved for the honor of an instrument!!
What is Violin instrument?
Violin is a stringed musical instrument. It is played with a horsehair bow. Mostly violins have a hollow wooden body to create sounds. There are different ways in which a violinist plays violin to produce different types of music with its strings. Violin is also known as a wooden chordophone in the family of violin.
Is Fiddle Violin?
This instrument is also known as fiddle, and is one of the favorite instrument played around the world. It has the capacity to take away anyone’s heart when its bow strings play a beautiful music.
Know about the History of Violin
Violin is a wonderful musical instrument which is famous world-wide but do you know from where it came and the history of violin?
The origin of violin takes us to the time period when Turkic and Mongolian people resided in the Inner Asia parts. It is believed that their horseman from Inner Asia were the first who were the earliest fiddlers.
Since they had horses with them, so they used to have horsehair bows and used to feature a carved horse’s head at the end of the neck of the fiddler. That time, they played two-stringed upright fiddlers strung with horsehair strings as mentioned above.
With time the changes happened to the design and use of violin but the basic remains the same. Still we can find bows have strung with horsehair as a legacy of the nomads.
How to celebrate National Violin Day?
Those who love Violin can spend this day by:
- Listening online concerts of Violin
- Watching online videos of Violin plays
- Learning Violin by taking classes
- Listening Violin
- Buy tickets of any orchestra to hear Violin music
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is Violin?
Ans: Violin is a stringed musical instrument
Q: Where was Violin originated?
Ans: It is believed that Violin was originated in Turkey/Mongolia.
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