It is the violin where it all started: the Yamaha Silent Violin SV-100. I was there at Lavillette Music Show in Paris back in 1997 when it launched and bought it straight away. So it is the first iteration of this great SV series (SV stands for Silent Violin, of course).Later, Yamaha enhanced and improved…
Even if playing an instrument is not all that hard, regularity is essential. If you have spent so many hours during the year to level up your game, it is shameful to lose everything! If you don’t take your musical instrument with you during your vacation, will it be beneficial, or will you lose your…
To play the violin, you need to be a master of invention, as the great Nathan Milstein put it. And the electric violin is the perfect tool to achieve that: you can play many types of music, ranging from Rock and Blues, to Bluegrass and Jazz, Country, Cajun, Irish, and even Classical Indian music. The…
As lovely as the violin sounds, its volume has been the detriment to many players’ confidence, and even consideration, of picking the instrument up for a long time. It’s no wonder that electric violins have become so popular over the years considering that fact. Still, can an electric violin completely eradicate that problem? Electric violins…
Violins are known to be magical instruments with prices reaching every year new heights. But it is a completely different story with electric violins. Have electric violins commoditized the price of those instruments? By being build in factories and in mass production, they certainly have. The revolution that happened with the guitar (Fender Stratocaster for…
As electric violins are quiet they tend to squeak less. Maybe they don’t have such a harsh sound at the beginning. Plus, you can play with headphones: your neighbors or your family won’t be able to hear you or to suffer from your first notes. So is it a good idea to start with an…