Is Violin Better?

Answer 1

The tuning of equal fifths gives violin certain advantages in logical fingering, especially when organizing musical scales in tetra-cords. (Half scales)

The violin has tremendous advantages of musical expressiveness. The bow can sustain any note infinitely, can swell, crescendo, decrescendo, produce both staccato and luscious liquid legato. The dynamic range and instantaneous response of bowed-violin is unequaled. Violin Pizzicato is often used as an "effect" in modern musical scores, particularly for movie music. However, Pizz on violin is arguably as difficult as Wes Montgomery's thumbed-octaves. Violin pizzicato cannot be diminished as a mere "trick" but is rather a technical tour-de-force... a separate specialized category of "special effects" on this difficult instrument.

Another advantage of violin is the tremendous body of great musical literature written for it. Piano and violin have been the two most inspiring instruments for composers and have produced the greatest technicians of musical art.

Violin has found a place in EVERY musical form. Classical is the most technically demanding in terms of discipline, though violin can be adapted to the advanced harmonic challenges of Jazz just as well.

Here are the two drawbacks of violin: cost and difficulty.

Due to modern production techniques, a decent beginner's violin can be purchased for about three hundred US dollars.

However, a GREAT violin is incredibly expensive… on the scale of MILLIONS.

The scale-length of violin and its lack of frets, demand the most accurate fingering and sense of pitch.

Then there is the bow...

The bow itself can be considered a separate instrument, requiring decades of practice to master. Decent bows look like simple sticks to uniformed simple spectators. But the balance and response of a great bow elevate the practitioner's work to the highest possible art. That is why good bows are so incredibly expensive.

A fine bow can easily cost several thousands of dollars. A REALLY excellent bow is so precious that cars, homes and lives are mortgaged to pay for them.

Bowing is an art-form unto itself and has an incredible vocabulary of expressive nuance. Combine that with the physical problems of merely holding the instrument, and you have a MAJOR technical hurdle to overcome before you can produce even tolerable sounds on violin.

The learning curve for violin is arguably the most difficult, so it requires an investment of soul, talent and diligent practice that is non-pareil.

When mastered, violin is the most amazing musical instrument ever conceived.

If you want a challenge worthy of the greatest talent, highest intellect, Spartan discipline, Herculean effort, and most importantly, HUMAN SOUL, then violin is THE instrument.

If you just want to play simple chords and riffs, guitars or pianos are far more friendly instruments.

Very few humans are up to the task of truly mastering violin.

When violin is mastered, it is the most transcendent musical instrument imaginable.

Answer 2

Well, to the person saying great violins cost millions, not many people run around playing Stratovarius'. I don't expect a professional handmade violin to cost more than several thousand dollars for a high quality concert level instrument, but of course you don't have to spend nearly that much to get a great sounding instrument usually.

It does look like a relatively difficult instrument to get good at though since you do have to have a very good sense of pitch and rhythm. But then again, you need a good sense of pitch and rhythm for any instrument really.

Answer 3

There is almost nothing better than the violin played by a genius and absolutely nothing worse than one played by a mediocre player. It is not an easy instrument to play well.

Answer 4

well,, very broad question.better to carry a violin then a tuba ! but rather have a fiddle than a violin

Answer 5

yes Violin is better than ukulele unless you are doing Tiptoe Through the Tulips

Answer 6

better then what? violin is a very nice sounding instrument but very hard to learn

Answer 7

I love the violin. So many emotions can be depicted from this one beautiful instrument!

Answer 8

Better than a whack in the head? Yes. Better than sex? No. Somewhere in between, I'd say.

Answer 9

Better than what? If you mean than anything then NO! Sorry but bass clarinet is the best!

Answer 10

Don't understand. Like better than??
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