Violin (disambiguation)
A violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths.
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Violin may also refer to:
Entertainment
- Violin (2011 film), a Malayalam film
- Violin (2017 film), a Russian film
- Violin (novel), novel by Anne Rice
- The Violin, a 2005 Mexican film
Music
- Violin (album), album by violinist Vanessa-Mae
- "Violin", a children's song by They Might Be Giants on their album No!
Instruments
- Violin family, family of string based instruments developed in sixteenth century Italy
- Violin octet, family of string based instruments developed in twentieth century United States of America
- Bass violin, various bass instruments of the violin family
- Baritone violin, violin variant either one octave below convention or the third largest member of the violin octet family
- Baroque violin, violin whose design is based in the baroque period
- Electric violin, electrical variant of the standard violin
- Five string violin, five string variant of the violin
- Kit violin, small violin designed to fit in a pocket
- Nail violin, instrument categorised as a friction idiophone
- Stroh violin, violin that uses metal resonators or metal horns to amplify sounds
- Tenor violin, instrument with a range between a cello and a viola
Other uses
- Violin beetle, species of ground beetles
- Violin Island or Pulau Biola, island off the coast of Singapore
- Violin Memory, US manufacturer of flash memory arrays
- Violin plot, in mathematics a box plot that illustrates probability density function
- VIOLIN vaccine database
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See also
- Fiddle, colloquial term for the instrument
- List of compositions for violin and orchestra
- List of violinists
- All pages with titles containing Violin
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