Vilolins...

[bea]

So let's start with something real - playing this one with the fingers ain't no guitar picking:

My first attempt toward electric violins. Fun to play but not the real thing: heavy, noisy, strange shape of fingerboard. That's why i built The Grebe:

I ran the Yamaha through a low pass filter of 400 Hz and a Boss OC2 octave.

 

[Six String]

That is gorgeous......

As old as the violin is, it gives it a "new" look. I have always loved hearing experimentation of traditional or classic instruments with new sounds.... Like harpsichord in rock, bagpipes, flute, etc.... Do you know if the violin has been crossed with say distortion or chorus...?

 

[bea]

I tried. With my Vox Tonelab ST. The Yamaha is a bit trebly, even with the low pass. But with a suitable equalisation it might be fun.

 

[DonP]

That is gorgeous......

As old as the violin is, it gives it a "new" look. I have always loved hearing experimentation of traditional or classic instruments with new sounds.... Like harpsichord in rock, bagpipes, flute, etc.... Do you know if the violin has been crossed with say distortion or chorus...?

 

[JohnnyGoo]

i know nothin of Violins but yours looks alot better than that other one. i do have a Epiphone Viola Bass guitar but thats as close to a Violin ive came to

 

[Six String]

Very cool. I hear different effects he's using. :dood:

You just gave me the idea for a thread......

 

[bea]

The Kennedy CD must be somewhere in my chaos. Here another well known player: Jean Luc Ponty. Here he plays Zappa:

BTW: both Kennedy and Zappa play MIDI violins, afaik. But not excluseively.

 

[tazz3]

I allways wanted to learn to play the Vilolin, its true lol

 

[Tony M.]

That is gorgeous......

As old as the violin is, it gives it a "new" look. I have always loved hearing experimentation of traditional or classic instruments with new sounds.... Like harpsichord in rock, bagpipes, flute, etc.... Do you know if the violin has been crossed with say distortion or chorus...?

Jerry Goodman in Mahavishnu Orchestra

 

[eSGEe]

IS it a Violin or a fiddle?

 

[DonP]

It's not often you hear a violin autotuned the way hers is.

 

[eSGEe]

SO that makes it a fiddle................

 

[iblive]

IS it a Violin or a fiddle?

Had a coworker ask me this question one day. Just told him it depends on who's playing it.

 

[iblive]

Lady at church plays hers thru a Boss multi effect pedal. It's pretty cool stuff.

 

[eSGEe]

uhm

 

[gasket]

SO that makes it a fiddle................

Way back in early 80's I mixed the sound for a folk band.
For a little time we had a violinist from the Sydney Symphony Orchestra playing "fiddle", more money and cash in hand from us.

 

[Chubbles]

I played violin all through school (years ago). It's a lot harder than guitar.

 

[eSGEe]

Way back in early 80's I mixed the sound for a folk band.
For a little time we had a violinist from the Sydney Symphony Orchestra playing "fiddle", more money and cash in hand from us.

So violin = nice tux and low dough
Fiddle equals jeans/t-shirt and good CASH

Got it