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Re: viola, jazz and rock viola, viola fiddle and electric viola...
Mon, November 12, 2007 - 1:44 PMya...I noticed not alot of action goes on in here...
I joined to read up on ele. violins.
My daughter plays Violin and viola, and would like to have an 5 string electiric violin for Christmas.
Im debatting on wether to buy the 4 string elec... or a basic violin and have a violin builder put the pick up & mics on, maybe he can add the C string too?
Any idea's
I know she'd love a Mark Woods but that definately isnt in my price range...Im thinking budget is under 300. -
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Re: viola, jazz and rock viola, viola fiddle and electric viola...
Mon, November 12, 2007 - 1:46 PM...and the Mark woods want-thing might be worse as were seeing the Trans-Siberian Orchastra next weekend... -
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Re: viola, jazz and rock viola, viola fiddle and electric viola...
Tue, November 13, 2007 - 3:19 PMIt's difficult to add a C string to violin as it puts too much stress on the instrument. Better to to do to a viola if you're going to go that route. Better still to buy one already made that way probably...
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Re: viola, jazz and rock viola, viola fiddle and electric viola...
Thu, November 29, 2007 - 10:53 AMShelly,
There's a lot of makers manufacturing 5-string electric violins: Barcus-Berry was the first to do it in volume, but now Yamaha, Jensen, and a bunch of other companies do. I don't use my white Barcus-Berry 5-string that I bought in 1980 any longer, haven't in years. I just don't like the violin size for myself, also how close together the strings are on a 5-string.
I use viola only on most jazz and folk gigs, occasionally when some material calls for the brighter, squeakier sound, I bring the violin and viola and switch back and forth.
A search online for electric violin turns up a lot of interesting sites, such as electric-violins.net/
Happy fiddling!
Eric
myspace.com/ericgolub
youtube.com/sirqitous
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