Yes.. This is the first time i laid my hands on this beautiful instrument. Lets see if i manage to play something worthwhile..
am i happy i'm not in the same room with you. from what i've seen, people take a month to learn just how to use the bow properly and consistently. this is a reason i love the piano. you throw a cat on a (tuned) piano, it still sounds acceptable. listening to a beginner on any other instrument (particularly horns and the saxophone) makes you wish you had a shotgun lying around.
well i'm done for the day.. it wasn't that bad... i tuned the instrument pretty decently..a step down to be precise.. its called Cajun tuning in terms of violen i guess.. i played 3 notes back and forth ..very slowly though.. Not bad i guess for day one..
*violin. Awesome man! Must be tough as anything... No frets and that little neck to navigate... Planning to learn it? :nw:
All string instruments in general are a lil tough..Anyways, i just wanted to know how it feels.. borrowed one of my frns violen yesterday.. Not learning or something.. but its a cute lil instrument. light as a feather. Loving it !!!
Dude, call it anything but cute or sweet. It's a frickin shredding monster - more than any ESP/Jackson/Ibby can ever hope to be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amfCqFUMBkY xD I love it's lightweightness and sustain capabilities too...but it's not as polyphonic as a guitar (among other instruments), so I'm not into it as much.
Hhhhoolllly siht! One of my friends (a doc) briefly considered picking it up then decided against it as he heard it leads to deafness due to being played so close to the ear.
Wait till you see this. (One of the comments actually says "Join a power metal band. Now." xD) Your friend could always wear earplugs... @flood - True, I messed around with one for 5 minutes and I could only make some guttural macabre scraping sounds till I got the bow pressure right...and after that there's intonation, as all the people in Delhi School of Music who've gotten tired of the beginner violinists' cacophony can tell xD
^where is violen in this video :think: anyways i played "Ode to Joy" today on violen (Dont laugh) .. as thats the easiest thing i cud play on it..
There isn't one. Just pure classical 'shred' I'll tell you a bigger 'don't laugh' statement - I haven't heard Ode To Joy. :RollLol:
that's impossible. freude schöner götterfunken? you've heard it somewhere - in ads, in movies (clockwork orange, to name one), it's the ****ing EU anthem! beethoven symphony 9 movement 4! FFS!!!
The only Beethoven I've heard is Symphony No 1, 1st movt. See? xD @Rickkky - Moar shredz (the first movement).
Dude, THEY are apples and oranges too. From what I see, there are basically two kinds of instruments - percussive sounding and voicelike sounding. Organ is voicelike, piano is percussive; why I say organ > piano is for polyphony. No single instrument can beat it. It ain't called the King of Instruments for nothing xD In terms of price and ease of learning...piano > organ. (you need a church, and THEN 3-10 crores, to install a fully fledged organ. Unless you wanna go digital...cheater ) This. :RollLol:
No single instrument can beat it for octave polyphony, sure. But the grand piano was never meant to simulate the human voice. If I want voice-like, I might as well use a voice. That's why a lot of instruments were created, to be as close to the human voice as possible. But the human voice and these instruments also remain apples and oranges. So it's a stalemate, really.