| An electric violin is an amplified | | | | strings and can cause annoying, |
| violin that sends out a signal through | | | | high-pitched squealing noises to come |
| an electrical pickup device. There are | | | | out of the amplifier. |
| several different models of electric | | | | Most electric violins have a solid body |
| violins. Some are standard acoustic | | | | design. The solid body keeps the |
| violins with an electric pickup added to | | | | instrument from feeding back. Also, any |
| the bridge. Other types of electric | | | | necessary electrical equipment, such as |
| violins are designed differently and | | | | any wiring or batteries, is housed in |
| only work properly when plugged in. | | | | the body. Since the electric violin is a |
| Electric violins are often used to play | | | | relatively new invention, it has no |
| different types of music than standard | | | | standard body shape or design, and |
| acoustic violins. | | | | makers are free to experiment and invent |
| The pickups of electric violins are | | | | new ways of designing the instrument. |
| important. Since electric violin strings | | | | Electric violins are usually used in |
| are usually made of metal, either | | | | different situations than acoustic |
| magnetic or piezoelectric pickups are | | | | violins. An electric violin is viewed as |
| used to transmit the sound to the | | | | an experimental instrument and is not |
| amplifier. This system is similar to the | | | | found in classical or traditional music, |
| way electric guitars work. | | | | but is often used in avant-garde music. |
| Some people add an electric pickup to a | | | | Guitar effects like reverb, chorus, and |
| standard acoustic violin so that it's | | | | distortion can be used to give the |
| signal can be transmitted to an | | | | electric violin a unique, otherworldly |
| amplifier. The problem with putting a | | | | sound. |
| pickup on an acoustic violin is that | | | | Electric violins are unique instruments |
| acoustic violins have a hollow wooden | | | | with a sound all their own. Electric |
| body that can create feedback when it is | | | | violins are perfect for musicians and |
| played electrically. The resonance of | | | | composers who want to have their own |
| the sound vibrating in the violin's body | | | | individual sound. |
| interferes with the sound made by the | | | | |