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While playing the violin you burn 170 calories an hour!
The modern Violin contains over 70 separate pieces of wood. [according to Etienne Vatelot in a foreward to Menuhin's "The Violin"]
The smallest violin measures just under 2" or about 50 millimeters
An old Italian term for the violin is "kit".
If a violinist is placed into an MRI machine, we can see that a much larger area of the brain - the right primary motor cortex - is devoted to his or her left fingers when compared with a non-violinist. Two or three times as large, in fact. Violinists also have more connections between the two sides of the brainwhich account for the better co-ordination they have between each hand compared with a non-violin player. Yay us!
Joseph Merlin of Huy, Belgium invented the roller skates. To introduce his invention he entered the ballroom-playing violin in 1759. Unfortunately he did not know how to stop and crashed into a full-length mirror, breaking his violin.
The violin is the most popular instrument for children, it is also the most indemand instrument at the professional level.
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Ferret said
"most indemand instrument at the professional level".
Indemand by who? Audiences? Performers? Orchestras?
Also, another factoid ..... There are more old violins in dark closets than moth balls.
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Joseph Merlin of Huy, Belgium invented the roller skates. To introduce his invention he entered the ballroom-playing violin in 1759. Unfortunately he did not know how to stop and crashed into a full-length mirror, breaking his violin.
Thereby also inventing the pratfall in that same year, which was not perfected until the 1970's by Chevy Chase -- possibly due to his inability to play the violin.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright
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