![]() ![]() ![]() Luthier Yuri Landman built a 12 string electric violin for the Belgian band DAAU. Hence, there are many variations on the standard design, such as frets, extra strings, machine heads, " baritone" strings that sound an octave lower than normal, and sympathetic strings. They are often seen as "experimental" instruments, being less established than electric guitar or bass. Lately, materials such as kevlar, glass and carbon fibres, are used in the build process. Solid-body electric violins typically have a non-traditional, minimalistic design to keep weight down. Several "semi-hollow" designs exist, containing a sealed, but hollow resonating chamber that provides some approximation of acoustic violin sound while reducing susceptibility to feedback. This raw sound is often preferred in rock, pop and some avant-garde genres. The timbre (tone color) of a standard unamplified violin is due in large part to these resonances, but so depending on how the signal is picked up, an electric violin may have a "rawer" or "sharper" sound than an acoustic. To avoid feedback from the resonances of the hollow body under high amplification on stage, many instruments have a solid body instead. There has been a great deal more commercial success for manufacturers of electric violins since the 1990s, both for well known, established companies and new independent makers too.Ī traditional acoustic violin and a modern electronic violin from Marc Capuano īarcus Berry have been producing electric violins since the mid-1960s and in the early 1970s Max Mathews began developing an electric violin which reached completion in 1984 During the 1980s more companies were formed producing their own brand of electric violin, such as RAAD or The Amazing Electric Violin and ZETA. After Fender was bought by CBS, the electric violin went into production in 1969 until 1975. The Electro Stringed Instrument Corporation, National String Instrument Corporation and Vega Company sold electric violins in the 1930s and 1940s Fender advertised an electric violin in 1958 (first production model pictured at the head of this page) but withdrew it at the point of production. Electrically amplified violins have been used in one form or another since the 1920s jazz and blues artist Stuff Smith is generally credited as being one of the first performers to adapt pickups and amplifiers to violins. ![]()
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