He wanted to go skydiving, wearing nothing except a harness, and play a couple of violin pieces on the way down. Armed with a A$50 (£30; $40) instrument, a bow and not much else, Mr Donnelly ...

There are three main parts of [Seth]’s violin-playing kinetic sculpture. The first is a bow carriage that draws the bow across the strings using an electromagnet to press the bow against the ...

How to play - Changing the length of the string by pressing down on it changes the frequency of the vibration - and so makes a different note. - Every violin is made up of certain parts including pegs ...

Sinsabaugh, Katherine 2005. Violin and Viola Shifting: A Technical Means to a Musical End. American String Teacher, Vol. 55, Issue. 1, p. 44. Maezawa, Akira Itoyama, Katsutoshi Takahashi, Toru Ogata, ...

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SpaceX astronaut Sarah Gillis performed in a cosmic concert from Orbit earlier this month, becoming the first person to play a violin in space, but not just any violin. “She especially wanted to ...

I started playing violin in 2008. I was 56 years old ... But I was happy with the music I played: the spiritual “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” Harold Arlen’s “Over the Rainbow,” Handel ...

The rules are simple. If I play the lower pitch chime bar, the low c, you have to sit down and touch the floor with your hands. If I play the higher pitch chime bar, the high g, you have to put ...

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31-year-old Tiffany Moore, a professional violinist who went viral last month for brutally shutting down her childhood ...