What is Violin?
{{refimprove|date=May 2020}} {{Distinguish|Viola}} [[File:Violin case.jpg|thumb|250px|A violin and [[bow (music)|bow]] in its case]] The '''violin''' is a [[string instrument]] which has four strings and is played with a [[bow (music)|bow]].<ref name=Adams>Adams, John S. (1865). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=JAg6AAAAIAAJ&dq=violin+is+a+string+instrument+that+is+played+with+a+bow&pg=PA252 Adams' New Musical Dictionary of Fifteen Thousand Technical Words, Phrases, Abbreviations, Initials, and Signs Employed in Musical and Rhythmical Art]'' p. 252. S. T. Gordon and Son. Retrieved on 27 March 2010</ref> The strings are usually tuned to the [[note (music)|notes]] G, D, A, and E.<ref name=violinsite>{{cite web |url=http://www.theviolinsite.com/history.html |title=About the Violin |accessdate=27 March 2010 |archive-date=12 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100412074526/http://www.theviolinsite.com/history.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is held between the left collar bone (near the [[shoulder]]) and the [[chin]]. Different notes are made by [[fingering]] (pressing on the strings) with the left [[hand]] while bowing with the right. Unlike guitar, it has no [[fret]]s or other markers on the fingerboard. The violin is the smallest and highest [[pitch (music)|pitched]] string instrument typically used in western music.<ref name=Hoffer>Hoffer, Charles (2009). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=rXBCtmjPw70C&dq=is+the+violin+is+the+smallest+and+highest+pitched+string+instrument&pg=PA30 Music Listening Today 3rd Edition]'' p. 30. Schirmer Cengage Learning {{ISBN|0-495-56576-8}}. Retrieved on 27 March 2010</ref> A person who plays the violin is called a '''violinist'''. A person who makes or repairs violins is called a [[luthier]]. The violin is important in European and Arabian music. No other instrument has played such an important part in Europe. The modern violin is about 400 years old. Similar string instruments have been around for almost 1000 years. By the time the modern [[orchestra]]s