By Bob Randalph


Finally, after suffering the fate of most innovations, electric violins have begun to find acceptance in the world of music. The prices have only changed a bit, but the number of models and styles has increased dramatically.

Once considered a toy, just like personal computers, now the electrified stringed instrument is used more often. It travels well, amplifies for outdoor venues and the sound can be tweaked with just like the electric guitar.

Because these instruments are made of materials other than wood, the shape and style, even the color is easily changed. There are models made of clear Lucite and others made of nearly indestructible composites. They an look just like the usual violin or flow in shapes never dreamed of by Stradivarius.

Bluegrass fiddlers and jazz violinists can now plug in their instruments and have some small chance of being heard over the banjo and the saxophone. But alas the classical symphony orchestra at least the majority of them, have yet to embrace the electrified violin.

Parents of new string players everywhere will appreciate one particular feature of electric strings. They can be silent. Plug the output into the headphones and junior hears his every note and you hear nothing at all. True bliss.

Maybe not everyone is equally ready to abandon the acoustic and head for the amplifier, but the positives are adding up on a daily basis. Just the fact that composites are more durable is a huge plus.

When you balance cost and flexibility of purpose against cost and lack of snob appeal the scales are beginning to move toward the center. The future looks quite bright.




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