Blue Violin

Blue Violin mixed media photograph by Michele Avanti

On my way to Ukiah last June, I stopped at a mineral museum. There I found this... more

by Michele Avanti

Title

Blue Violin

Artist

Michele Avanti

Medium

Photograph - Mixed Media

Description

Blue Violin mixed media photograph by Michele Avanti

On my way to Ukiah last June, I stopped at a mineral museum. There I found this incredible antique violin. This old string instrument evoked feelings of sweet baroque drama, the story of love, the gypsy and the orchestra. The history of Stradivarius and the wonder of the fiddler.

Why this color? Blue is the color of emotions and copper the color or metal that keeps one from anger. Thus I created the blue violin to evoke emotions of love rather than anger.

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The violin, also called a fiddle, is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola, and the cello.
The modern word is derived from the Italian word violino, literally meaning 'small viola'. It is based on an ancient Indian stringed instrument called the Ravanahatha which arrived on Italian shores between the 10th and 16th centuries through Arab traders.

Someone who plays the violin is called a violinist or a fiddler. The violinist produces sound by drawing a bow across one or more strings (which may be stopped by the fingers of the other hand to produce a full range of pitches), by plucking the strings (with either hand), or by a variety of other techniques. The violin is played by musicians in a wide variety of musical genres, including Baroque music, classical, jazz, country music, bluegrass music, folk music, metal, rock and roll, and soft rock. The violin has come to be played in many non-Western music cultures all over the world.The violin is sometimes informally called a fiddle, regardless of the type of music played on it.
The violin was first known in 16th-century Italy, with some further modifications occurring in the 18th and 19th centuries. It arrived in Italy from India through Arab and Mediterranean traders. In Spain, Italy and Europe, it served as the basis for stringed instruments used in western classical music, the viola and the violin. Violinists and collectors particularly prize the instruments made by the Stradivari, Guarneri and Amati families from the 16th to the 18th century in Brescia and Cremona and by Jacob Stainer in Austria. According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or equal it, though this belief is disputed. Great numbers of instruments have come from the hands of "lesser" makers, as well as still greater numbers of mass-produced commercial "trade violins" coming from cottage industries in places such as Saxony, Bohemia, and Mirecourt. Many of these trade instruments were formerly sold by Sears, Roebuck and Co. and other mass merchandisers.

A person who makes or repairs violins is called a luthier. The parts of a violin are usually made from different types of wood (although electric violins may not be made of wood at all, since their sound may not be dependent on specific acoustic characteristics of the instrument's construction), and it is usually strung with gut, Perlon or other synthetic, or steel strings.

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September 27th, 2015