"String instruments have been played for more than a thousand years. Performance on string instruments has reached a level today that cannot be improved upon, and the quality of instruments built nearly three centuries ago is maintained in the best instrument made today" (Allen, 1).
"The violin is a wooden resonance box that amplifies the soundwaves from the vibrations of the strings stretched across it" (Mandy). The most material for the construct the violin is wood; maple used for the back, ribs, and neck) and spruce for the top. People usually uses specific types of wood because those has tight grain, which makes strong, provide the richer sound.
Since people wanted to take the violin seriously to make and play, they started to learn from the unsuccessful past to improve it. To play the violin with rich sound is necessary to violinist to have technology with the certain quality of violin. The quality of instruments built nearly 300 years ago. The quality of violin and performance is improved. The natural scientists have undertaken research into string instruments and some string-instrument builders are now beginning to take advantage of scientific methods of measurement and calculation (Hutchins 1962).
The Relation between the Bow-to-string Pressure and the Moment of Fingers
This is show the how the momentum will occur while people play the violin. When you put down the right hand on the bow, each fingers will give a force to down. However, the thumb, which put between the band, does give force up. This will happen at the frog of the bow.
x : distance from fingers to string
P : pressure
a : distance from fingers to the center of gravity of bow (const.)
W : the weight of the bow (const.)
The bow is moved a long at a particular speed by the right hand. Frictional forces between the bow and the string alternate between sticking and sliding. And the pressure will occur at the mid-end of bow where it meets the string. As the picture shown, it will be the free-body diagram for bow.
The Parts of the Violin that make its sound possible:
For years, Stradivari maintained this strategy and was able to make increasingly beautiful violins with his stockpile of priceless ingredients. Every time Apollo or Hermes would play one of Stradivari's violins and be satisfied, Stradivari would shake his head and tell them that the violin was a pittance in comparison with his next creation. Apollo and Hermes, blinded by their competition and ...
This method book was not only a method for flutists, but a compendium covering musical taste and execution practical on any instrument. Only five of the eighteen chapters solely concern the flute. In contrast to other method books of its time, Quantz did not promise a speedy mastery of the instrument, but instead wrote his essay “to train a skilled and intelligent musician, and not just a mechanical flute-player.
There are many ways scientists have experimented on Stradivari’s instruments. One way and the most common is through CT scans and resonance tests. The purpose of CT scans is to determine all of the shaping that Stradivari had done. CT scans measure density, thickness, shape, etc. Resonance tests are performed on the Strads to test the spectrum capacities between his violins and others.
Next we come to a point in time where a great leap had to be made. Musicians had made positive steps forward in the way of pitch and time but of only one or two notes at a time. What was needed was an in instrument that gave players control of many pitches simultaneously. The mechanism ...
· Any possible obstructions or anything else that make effect the general momentum e.g. Doors opening windows being open or shut.
Violin : by name Fiddlebowed, stringed musical instrument that evolved during the Renaissance from earlier bowed instruments: the medieval fiddle; its 16th-century Italian offshoot, the lira da braccio; and the rebec. The violin is probably the best known and most widely distributed musical instrument in the world. (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica)
The beginnings of the European guitar are unknown. It is impossible to establish the history of guitar before the Renaissance, but similar plucked-string instruments existed such as the long neck lute. The lute had a waisted sound box alike the guitar and survived from third to sixth century. During renaissance and medieval periods, a wide range of plucked stringed instruments can be found. The instruments include the citole, cittern, vihuela, mandore, gittern, the lute and its
Speaking of playing erhu, it is standing upright by the left hand, so the player is holding it with left hand on the player’s left thigh. The fingers on left hands block the strings, during the right hand and arm play the bow. By presuming the wood of the bow outward or dragging the bow hair inward with fingers on right hands, the player makes sound from one of the two strings. Bowing techniques cover long bow (chang gong), short bow (duan gong), tremolo (chan gong), and others. In modern performance, the left hand acts to various positions. Left hand techniques, which generally categorize the special sound aspect of erhu, include vibrato (rou yin), appoggiatura (da yin), glissando (hua yin), and others.
There is aspects of physics in almost every aspect of volleyball. Volleyball also follows the three laws of motion provided from Sir Isaac Newton.
Music has shaped the lives of people throughout history. Even in its earliest forms, music has included use of instruments. One of the oldest musical instruments known is a variation of the flute; the original flute is thought to date back nearly 67,000 years ago. Tonight we are going to move throughout the eras with a history of instrumental music. This concert will begin with the Renaissance Era and continue through time until we have reached modern instrumental music.
Watkins, James. An Introduction to Mechanics of Human Movement. MTP Press Limited. Lancaster, England. 1983.
Historical. This brilliant composition is considered as one of the two most important violin concertos of the German Romantic period, with Mendelssohn’s vi...
Of all the instruments laid out on display, only one caught my attention. I was thirteen at the time, and naturally, my eye was drawn to the shiniest of the group. I had never heard the sound of a flute before, aside from the cheap imitation of one on my family’s electronic keyboard. Nevertheless, I picked the pretty, gleaming, easy-to-carry flute on that first day of band class. Three years later, I can’t imagine playing anything else. What started off as blind luck and an attraction to shiny objects is now a part of my life. Playing an instrument is always a worthwhile investment; you develop a skill that many people only wish they had, you have opportunities to meet other musicians, and you may even get to travel in a band setting. But in order to reap the benefits, you first have to learn how to play.
Antonio Vivaldi is a famous Italian baroque composer, known by most Suzuki violin students who study his concertos or by audiences everywhere who have heard and love his composition of the Four Seasons. Having grown up as students of the Suzuki Violin Method, we recognize this composer and have experience performing his pieces. In addition to his many concertos written for solo violin, Vivaldi composed many concertos intended to be performed by two solo violins, accompanied by a small orchestra. Because we are both violinists, we chose to analyze the second movement of Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Violins in A minor, RV 522, included in his L’Estro Armonico works.
The use of a boat while fishing and some of the physics applicable to boating will be included in exploring the various ways physics applies to the sport of fishing. Other topics will include the fishing rod, fishing lure, casting, and the fish itself.