What musical instrument am I?
Answer to last Wordless/ful Wednesday: Electric Violin
Electric violins are usually made with a solid body and a built-in pickup to amplify the sound. Most electric violins have 5-7 strings. Electric violins have been around since the 1920's. Stuff Smith (a blues and jazz artist) was one of the first performers to play electric violin. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_violin)Today, electric violins are used in jazz, pop, hip-hop, rock, metal, country, new age, and contemporary classical music.
Below is an example of what the electric violin sounds like:
(Jerry Goodman on electric violin)
My 10 year old tells me it is a flute - she must be right?!?!?
ReplyDeleteI think some sort of flute or clarinet!!
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My guess is flute or piccolo.
ReplyDeleteI'd say a piccolo.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this. I have never heard an electric violin. Interesting. I think I prefer a traditional violin but this is pretty cool for a certain style of music.
ReplyDeleteDid I tell you last week that I love that I can count on the previous weeks mystery instrument to be revealed as well as a new one unveiled on Wednesdays? I LOVE it.
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Happy WW!
An Oboe???? I like this blog. THis is my first time here. I will have to send my daughter here. She loves music as much as I do.
ReplyDeleteI should know this as I was a majorette in the marching band through high school and college... my friends played them... either a clarinet or flute?
ReplyDeleteGreat blog!!! My children love music - it's big here in our house!
Ah, that lil' charmer is the reason I have hearing loss in my right ear! That be a piccolo, made of either wood or rosin (plastic). Wood is preferred. The silver "pea shooter" piccolos usually found in high schools are dangerous; I swear they can peel paint with a simple pucker. The wood/rosin version has a warmer tone and is, in my opinion, easier to play.
ReplyDeleteAnd the piccolo made me a kick-tush flute player. When God and the whole world can hear you, you make darned sure that you know the music, that you're in tune, and that you sound good. ;)
That is very cool! I've never heard the electric violin. My son wanted to hear it over and over.
ReplyDeleteI have never seen a black flute or piccolo, but it certainly does look like a piccolo. So, in case there are no such things as black piccolos, my vote will be an oboe. Do I get a prize if I am right--hee hee;)!
ReplyDeleteI guess an oboe or a piccolo!!
ReplyDeleteI play the violin so that one was a cinch. I believe that is an oboe in the photo.
ReplyDeletePickles I don't know...I played the flute and clarinet and never saw one like that.
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