Significance of National Violin Day on 13 December

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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. 

Is Fiddle same as Violin?

Violin 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.

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.

Where was Violin originated?

It is believed that Violin was originated in Turkey/Mongolia.

Few Ideas to celebrate National Violin Day

1. Listening online concerts of Violin 2. Watching online videos of Violin plays 3. Learning Violin by taking classes 4. Listening Violin 5. Buy tickets of any orchestra to hear Violin music

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