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Violin:

The violin has four strings, each string has a different tone from the tone of the other strings. Since all the strings are of the same length, there is no longer a connection between the tone of the length of the strings and rule number 3, which is its shortness. But does it have a connection to rule number 4, which is for heavy and light objects? If we look at the strings of the violin.

We find that the highest-pitched string is very thin. And the string that follows it in degree is thicker than it, and so on. The thicker the string, the heavier it is. This is why we have four strings, each with a special tone; although they are all of the same length.

The violin produces - without a doubt - more than four notes. We get these other notes, through rule number 3. Which is for short and long strings. The violinist shortens the string by placing his finger on it. His finger actually divides the string into two parts, each of which is naturally shorter than the length of the string itself. The movement of the violin bow over one of these parts causes the vibration of that part.

If it is the string that vibrates, why do we need the rest of the violin parts? The first reason is that these strings need to be fixed at each end of the violin, although this process can be done if we use any piece of wood, at each end of which there is a nail. As for the main function of the rest of the violin parts, we can determine by a small experiment.

Hold the handle of a fork between your index finger and thumb and tap the tines of the fork on the knuckles of your fingers and listen. You will hear a faint musical note. Repeat this process, but this time quickly place the end of the handle of the fork on the table. The sound will be louder in this case.

A fork is not a very large object, and when it vibrates, it causes the air around it to vibrate.

But a small fork only compresses a small amount of air. When a vibrating fork presses on a table, the whole table vibrates.

The table in turn causes the air to vibrate (a large amount of air because the table is large). This is the reason for the loudness of the sound.

In a violin, the strings vibrate, and these strings transmit the vibrations to the rest of the violin, just as the fork did to the table. Since the whole violin is much wider than the strings themselves, the violin can make sounds louder than the strings alone, just as the table can make a sound louder than the fork alone.

But a violin, no matter how cheap it is, can make a loud sound. Why then do violins sometimes cost hundreds of pounds? Because they vibrate with complete fidelity. This means that the violin treats each of the vibrations of the strings in the same way, and respects them all equally, by giving each vibration the same height. On the other hand, we see that cheap violins affect some vibrations on others, raising them higher than others, while we see them completely neglecting vibrations of very high pitch. Good violins cannot be made by machines, because the pieces of wood are not exactly equal in their quality, and therefore the slightest change, however slight, in the thickness, hardness, or dryness of the wood causes a very large difference in the type of tone emitted by the violin after it is finished being made. The cello, viola, and del bass are very similar to the large violins. But the pitch of the notes they produce is lower than the pitch of the violin, because their strings are longer than the violin's, and thicker than them. Their sounds are also higher than the violin's, because they are larger in size.