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I agree with previous posters that violins are not a major contributor to landfills (especially when people hold onto them for 100 years or more) and it makes no sense that replacing a wooden product with another made of a material made from, well, wood is more eco-friendly.
On a somewhat related note, in the second half of this video, Michael Dunne plays a homemade violin with a wooden box-like body. It comes after his rendition of Danny Boy, starting at about the 1:30 minute mark.
When the work's all done and the sun's settin' low,
I pull out my fiddle and I rosin up the bow.
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Amazing but weird too. Can u believe that a plain box with slots not F holes can sound as good as that.
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Amazing but weird too. Can u believe that a plain box with slots not F holes can sound as good as that.
Hard to believe, but then people have also made violins out of cigar boxes.
Guess you can put strings a fingerboard and a tailpiece on just about anything and get music out of it.
When the work's all done and the sun's settin' low,
I pull out my fiddle and I rosin up the bow.
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Now, if you want to be talking about ugly/bizarre violins, I ran across this one over on instructables.com
http://www.instructables.com/i.....he-Violog/
I am not entirely sure what to think of that one. I don't think it could be played under the chin in the modern position from the looks of it. I am also not sure if I'd call it ugly or maybe just more rustic than I would usually care for. Interesting, though.
"This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in 5 or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development." ~ Itzhak Perlman
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