Have you ever played the violin?
No, I haven't. Violins are wooden string instruments with a hollow body.
Yeah, I never played either, I only every played the drums, I did not have money to afford other instruments to learn
Violins are expensive for sure. They are the smallest and highest-pitched instruments played today.
That I did not know, but I did know they were expensive, even now I may not be able to afford them
They have electric violins now with pickups, similar to electric guitars. They can be hooked up to amplifiers and speakers.
That is very interesting, I cannot imagine that, I associate electric with guitars, violins seem classier to me
strings, though it can also be played by plucking the strings with the fingers (pizzicato) and by striking the strings with the wooden side of the bow (col legno). 
Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres. They are most prominent in the Western classical tradition, both in ensembles (from chamber music to orchestras) and as solo instruments and in many varieties of folk music, including country music, bluegrass music and in jazz. Electric violins with solid bodies and piezoelectric pickups are used
Violin
The violin, sometimes known as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and highest-pitched instrument in the family in regular use. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino piccolo and the kit violin, but these are virtually unused. The violin typically has four strings, usually tuned in perfect fifths with notes G3, D4, A4, E5, and is most commonly played by drawing a bow across its