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These days it’s not difficult to buy <keyword id="12668239" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="acoustic-violins" source="Orion">acoustic violins</keyword> as there are plenty of options easily available online. If you can’t visit a music store you can still find a good acoustic violin online. There are options for beginners, professional players and even kids who are just starting out. You also get a range of options in terms of the make, design and type of violin. There are different budget options too. <br /><br />If you’re looking for an acoustic violin, here are the best ones you can buy.<br /><br /><bulletContentEmbed name="B01HEOL39Q" columns="1"><bulletContentHeading name="B01HEOL39Q_head"><div type="image" title="Recommended" msid="87765632" hostid="261"></div></columnHeadThumb>B01HEOL39Q</columnHeadTitle></columnHead></bulletContentHeading><bulleteContentBody name="B01HEOL39Q_body"><bulletContentRow name="B01HEOL39Q_0694037839353740"><bulletContentRowHeading><bulletContentRowHead col="1">Sergio Tordini 4/4 Full Size Acoustic Violin</bulletContentRowHead></bulletContentRowHeading><bulletContentRowBody><bulletContentRowCell col="1">The Sergio Tordini acoustic violin is a 4/4 full size violin that you can go for. It features a solid spruce top and maple side and back. The violin comes with ebony pegs, chin rest and fingerboard, and Brazilwood bow with white horsehair. In addition to the violin and bow, you also get a lightweight foam fitting soft case. In terms of specifics, the violin weighs 528 grams and it measures 60 x 22 x 4 cm.</bulletContentRowCell></bulletContentRowBody></bulletContentRow><bulletContentRow name="B01HEOL39Q_2020812374894069"><bulletContentRowHeading><bulletContentRowHead col="1"></bulletContentRowHead></bulletContentRowHeading><bulletContentRowBody><bulletContentRowCell col="1">The Sergio Tordini acoustic violin is available in brown colour, and it’s ideal for professional players.</bulletContentRowCell></bulletContentRowBody></bulletContentRow></bulleteContentBody></bulletContentEmbed><br /><br /><bulletContentEmbed name="B07TB739NN" columns="1"><bulletContentHeading name="B07TB739NN_head"><div type="image" title="Recommended for students" msid="87765657" hostid="261"></div></columnHeadThumb>B07TB739NN</columnHeadTitle></columnHead></bulletContentHeading><bulleteContentBody name="B07TB739NN_body"><bulletContentRow name="B07TB739NN_1615058919308264"><bulletContentRowHeading><bulletContentRowHead col="1">The violin Store Student Violin</bulletContentRowHead></bulletContentRowHeading><bulletContentRowBody><bulletContentRowCell col="1">If you want a violin for kids, then you can go for this one offered by The violin Store. It’s a ¼ size violin which makes it suitable for kids aged between nine and 11. The violin is made of wood with a maple back, and it features a highly carved interior for lightweight comfort. It also has a superior bow construction that helps in reducing hand fatigue. In addition to the violin and bow, The violin Store also offers a soft case along with it.</bulletContentRowCell></bulletContentRowBody></bulletContentRow><bulletContentRow name="B07TB739NN_9175008430457849"><bulletContentRowHeading><bulletContentRowHead col="1"></bulletContentRowHead></bulletContentRowHeading><bulletContentRowBody><bulletContentRowCell col="1">This violin can be purchased for kids who are just starting out to learn the musical instrument.</bulletContentRowCell></bulletContentRowBody></bulletContentRow></bulleteContentBody></bulletContentEmbed><br /><br /><bulletContentEmbed name="B08H4T2PMX" columns="1"><bulletContentHeading name="B08H4T2PMX_head"><div type="image" title="Good design" msid="87765681" hostid="261"></div></columnHeadThumb>B08H4T2PMX</columnHeadTitle></columnHead></bulletContentHeading><bulleteContentBody name="B08H4T2PMX_body"><bulletContentRow name="B08H4T2PMX_6350609083392396"><bulletContentRowHeading><bulletContentRowHead col="1">Kadence Vivaldi 4/4 Electric Violin</bulletContentRowHead></bulletContentRowHeading><bulletContentRowBody><bulletContentRowCell col="1">This is an electric 4/4 full size violin from Kadence. Since it’s an electric violin, you can plug it to an amplifier or a compatible speaker. Electric violins are different from classical violins and are recommended for playing music genres like jazz or rock. In terms of design, the Kadence electric violin comes in a sleek finish and in a dark brown colour. 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The Havana violin is made of solid maple, ebony fingerboard and pegs. It also features painted sides and neck. The violin comes with a case, bridge, rosin, bow and cover cloth as well so it makes for a good value for money option. There’s also a free Havana shoulder rest that you get with this violin. The Havana violin measures 10.16 x 10.16 x 91.44 cm, and it weighs 2.34 kgs.</bulletContentRowCell></bulletContentRowBody></bulletContentRow><bulletContentRow name="B082D6QTZ4_9016065028805142"><bulletContentRowHeading><bulletContentRowHead col="1"></bulletContentRowHead></bulletContentRowHeading><bulletContentRowBody><bulletContentRowCell col="1">This violin is recommended for professional players as well as beginners.</bulletContentRowCell></bulletContentRowBody></bulletContentRow></bulleteContentBody></bulletContentEmbed><br /><br /><bulletContentEmbed name="B0854JM3NG" columns="1"><bulletContentHeading name="B0854JM3NG_head"><div type="image" title="Also consider" msid="87765752" hostid="261"></div></columnHeadThumb>B0854JM3NG</columnHeadTitle></columnHead></bulletContentHeading><bulleteContentBody name="B0854JM3NG_body"><bulletContentRow name="B0854JM3NG_8020493220213636"><bulletContentRowHeading><bulletContentRowHead col="1">Kadence Vivaldi Violin VIV101</bulletContentRowHead></bulletContentRowHeading><bulletContentRowBody><bulletContentRowCell col="1">The Kadence Vivaldi Violin VIV101 is a 4/4 full size violin in a classic design. It comes with a maple body and an ebony fingerboard which makes it suitable for long term use. It also features a spruce top, and stainless steel strings. The violin also features a glossy body and a wood bow with unbleached hair. There’s a lightweight hard case that comes along with the violin, and you also get a bow, and rosin.</bulletContentRowCell></bulletContentRowBody></bulletContentRow><bulletContentRow name="B0854JM3NG_0574234656120308"><bulletContentRowHeading><bulletContentRowHead col="1"></bulletContentRowHead></bulletContentRowHeading><bulletContentRowBody><bulletContentRowCell col="1">The Kadence Vivaldi Violin VIV101 weighs 1.5 kgs, and measures 78 x 27 x 13 cm.</bulletContentRowCell></bulletContentRowBody></bulletContentRow></bulleteContentBody></bulletContentEmbed><br /><br /><bulletContentEmbed name="B08GJTXN9B" columns="1"><bulletContentHeading name="B08GJTXN9B_head"><div type="image" title="Pocket friendly" msid="87765787" hostid="261"></div></columnHeadThumb>B08GJTXN9B</columnHeadTitle></columnHead></bulletContentHeading><bulleteContentBody name="B08GJTXN9B_body"><bulletContentRow name="B08GJTXN9B_9333017367592678"><bulletContentRowHeading><bulletContentRowHead col="1">JUAREZ Legnò Violin</bulletContentRowHead></bulletContentRowHeading><bulletContentRowBody><bulletContentRowCell col="1">This is a budget-friendly option for a 4/4 full size violin. It features a black wood fingerboard, chinrest and pegs as well. The violin also has a metal tailpiece with four integrated fine tuners. You get a red wood bow with unbleached genuine horsehair along with the violin. The top board of the violin is made with spruce, while the backboard is made of solid maple.</bulletContentRowCell></bulletContentRowBody></bulletContentRow><bulletContentRow name="B08GJTXN9B_3877462337961848"><bulletContentRowHeading><bulletContentRowHead col="1"></bulletContentRowHead></bulletContentRowHeading><bulletContentRowBody><bulletContentRowCell col="1">The JUAREZ Legnò Violin is ideal for both professionals and beginners.</bulletContentRowCell></bulletContentRowBody></bulletContentRow></bulleteContentBody></bulletContentEmbed><br />

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<p class="p1"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Nathan McAlone</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p class="p1">As the technology for making music gets more advanced, it presents a strange tradeoff for musicians.</p><p class="p1">The act of playing a physical instrument contains a certain emotion, something that's hard to match when you're moving snippets of sound around on a computer. Conversely, a computer provides such a wide variation of tone and sound that it can unlock a creative energy that traditional instruments, like a piano, can stifle.</p><p class="p1">Roli, a London-based company, is trying to bridge the gap between these two factors, and has created a remarkable new type of instrument to do so. The instrument is called a "Seaboard," and it looks a bit like a piano you would find on an alien spaceship. It is made out of ridged silicone, which is fashioned into a keyboard that flows from one side to the other, with keys that are almost defined - but not quite.</p><p class="p1">Here is what it the Seaboard Rise - the cheaper and more portable of two versions - looks like:</p><p class="p1"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Nathan McAlone</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p class="p1">The point of this design is simple. Roli wants to bring the "soul" of acoustic instruments to a keyboard, and in doing so, allow some of the boundless variation of a computer program.</p><p class="p1">"Plotting lines on a computer can feel clinical," a representative of Roli told me. Roli wants to take a computer and put it back at your fingertips.</p><p class="p1">With a Seaboard Rise, you can play the keys like a piano, but you can also "bend" the sound by moving your finger on the surface as if it were a violin. </p><p class="p1">In fact, the Seaboard Rise has five prime ways you can modify the sounds you are bringing forth:</p><ol><li><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Strike: How hard you hit a key</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Press: How much pressure you apply after the initial hit</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Glide: The back and forth movement of your fingers on the keys</span></li><li>Slide: The up and down movement of your fingers on the keys</li><li>Lift: How fast you lift your finger off the key</li></ol><p class="p1">These elements can be customized to do most everything using Roli's software - from reverb, to pitch, to different filters. You can also make the keys sound like anything you want: strings, organ, or an instrument conjured out of someone's imagination.</p><h3 class="p1">What is playing a Seaboard Rise like?</h3><p class="p1">I got to try out the instrument at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, and its potential is immediately apparent.</p><p class="p1">I play a bit of both piano and guitar, but my first touch on the Seaboard Rise felt foreign. The keys aren't defined, and adjusting to making music on it was a bit like switching from a keyboard to a touchscreen. But once I got the hang of it, it made me wish both that I had hours to play on it, and that I was more adept as a musician. It seemed to be particularly good at capturing mood, lending itself to improvisation off of a theme by switching between different "instruments" and warping the sound in various ways. </p><p class="p1">There are two versions of the Seaboard currently in production: the Rise and the Grand. The Seaboard Grand was Roli's first product, and it is beautiful, large, and expensive. At $2,000, it is beyond the reach of many budgets.</p><p class="p1"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Nathan McAlone</span></p><p class="caption">The Seaboard Grand.</p></div><p></p></div></div><a href="https://www.roli.com/products/seaboard-rise">The Seaboard Rise</a>, however, retails for a more affordable $799. This comes with tradeoffs. The biggest drawback of the Rise is that it is much smaller (25 "Keywaves"), although there are shifters on the side for you to move up and down octaves.</p><h3 class="p1">Try it</h3><p class="p1">But there's a way to get a taste of what playing a Seaboard Rise is like without paying anything. A month ago, the company released an app that uses 3D touch on the iPhone 6S to mimic the functionality of the keyboard. T<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/noise-5d/id1011132019?mt=8">he app is called Noise</a> and basically turns your phone into a miniature version of the Seaboard Rise, allowing you to experience a version of the five tactile "dimensions" that are Roli's main innovation. Roli says that the app saw over 100,000 downloads in its first three weeks.</p><p class="p1">This is what the app looks like:</p><p class="p1"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Roli</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p class="p1">Here are some more pictures of my experience with the Seaboard at CES:</p>

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<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>When I was about seven or eight, I went for a taster violin lesson at school. The idea was to get an idea for the instrument, and see if I wanted to learn properly. I enjoyed it - but the expected lessons never materialised.</p><p>A few years later, I asked my mother why: Apparently the tutor had refused to teach me.</p><p>It's fair to say that I am not a natural musician.</p><p>But at the start of 2016, I resolved to change that. I decided to learn the piano.</p><p>A year of immense frustrations, endless Philip Glass, and deep satisfaction later, here's how it went.</p><h2>Why? I wanted to do something totally new</h2><p>I'm 24 years old, I live in London, and I've gone through life without knowing the first thing about music. I love to <em>listen</em> to it - I've got a pretty big collection, and I go to gigs regularly. But how it's <em>made</em> has always been one great big opaque mystery to me.</p><p>Both of my brothers play - saxophone and guitar, respectively - but the extent of my musical education was tapping out basic beats on a glockenspiel and learning the first few bars of "Neighbours" on the piano at school. So why did I take the plunge now? Well, there were a few reasons:</p><ul><li><strong>I wanted to challenge myself. </strong>2016 was the start of my third year living in London. I'd settled into a routine, and wanted to add some variety to my life - and something that would push me in a new direction.</li><li><strong>I wanted to do something <em>totally</em> new</strong>. Learning music for the first time isn't like taking up a new team ball-sport, or an unusual arts-and-crafts activity. Music is an entirely new category of human endeavour I have never meaningfully engaged in before. That makes it pretty exciting - and intimidating.</li><li><strong>I love music.</strong> Pretty self-explanatory. I hoped that learning an instrument for the first time would enrich my appreciation of the artform.</li></ul><p>I also set myself a few goals - some strict, and some more nebulous.</p><ul><li><strong>Pass my Grade 1 piano exam by the end of 2016.</strong> If you're not familiar with the system, you can take exams as you learn instruments, from Grade 1 through to Grade 8. A clear target of reaching Grade 1 by the end of the year would give me something to work towards, a way to measure my success or failure.</li><li><strong>Improve my knowledge of classical music.</strong> I had no strict timeframe for this, or a set point when it would be "completed." But I've never known my Bach from my Beethoven, and I wanted to change that.</li><li><strong>Learn "Metamorphosis II," by Philip Glass.</strong> This was a longer-term goal, beyond 2016 - it's a beautiful, flowing, and technically tricky bit of music that I wanted to work towards as I got better.</li></ul><p>How did it go? The short version is that it was fantastic - I'm extremely glad I did it, and I'd strongly urge&#xa0;to anyone thinking about taking up an instrument to do it, whatever your age.</p><p>It wasn't all plain sailing, however.</p><h2>Learning something new is a lesson in humility and patience</h2><p><em>Note: The following sections go into some detail on what and how I learned. If you just want to know whether I passed the exam or not, skip down to the "arcane mystery" section below.</em></p><p>Let me make this clear: Piano is hard. Really hard. It requires you to think in a way you've never done before, juggling a thousand balls simultaneously. Interpret the music. Keep the tempo. Vary the volume. Move both hands independently of one-another. Make sure it all actually sounds <em>good</em>.</p><p>You know that brain-straining feeling when you try and multiply three three-digit numbers together? That's what it felt like to be interpreting and playing music on the fly.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>To learn, I bought myself a new Yamaha P45 electric piano to learn on. (It goes for £350 in the <keyword id="6354868" type="COUNTRY" weightage="100" keywordseo="UK">UK</keyword>, and $400 in the US.) I needed something with a full 88-key keyboard (like a traditional acoustic piano), touch-sensitive weighted keys (so it actually sounds and feels like a piano), and I didn't care about fancy voices and modes.<p>I also decided when I began that I was prepared to invest real time and money into this, and pay for a tutor to give me lessons on a (near-)weekly basis. This obviously isn't an option for everyone. But having a tutor means you get expert guidance and avoid learning bad habits - and I'm very glad I did it. For me at least, learning independently would have been far more difficult and infuriating. If you care about something, invest in it.</p><p>Though I had committed to learning piano by the end of 2015, an accident involving a very sharp knife and my thumb meant I was only in a position to buy the piano and start learning at the end of January 2016. For the first week or two, I tried learning using Yousician, a freemium app that can teach you piano and other instruments. It was better than nothing - but it was also limited, and I quickly began looking for a human tutor.</p><p>My first songs were simple, five-note affairs: "When The Saints Go Marching In" was a particular favourite. But an early frustration was the basic-ness of the stuff I was playing, often simplified versions of popular songs. I wanted to be better than I was. I wanted to play stuff I wasn't capable of.</p><p>In that sense, it was a lesson in patience and humility. It's increasingly rare that I go into something completely blind, starting from first principles. You gravitate towards fields and pursuits you're good at, and away from those you're not. Learning piano forced me to face my ineptitude head on, and try to change it.</p><p>Slowly and surely, I improved - and it made a world of difference when I could begin playing stuff that didn't feel dumbed-down. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSmXAG2mYY4">John Cage's "In A Landscape"</a> is haunting, and relatively technically simple. And Philip Glass's Metamorphosis II is actually very manageable, <a href="https://youtu.be/FH55ordbsR8?t=2m19s">before the rapid-fire arpeggios begin</a>. Without a doubt I've played it more than anything else in my repertoire - to my flatmates' resigned amusement.</p><p><em>Can you hear the mistake? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa3CIMEYdXo">Here's a live version of the full song</a>. The finger-melting arpeggios start around the two-minute-thirty mark.</em></p><p>I expect I could have progressed faster had I applied myself more. Lessons, nominally once a week, sometimes happened much less frequently, and I had a gap of a month or two during the summer when I didn't play at all.</p><p>But in the early Autumn, I agreed to try for Grade 1 before the end of the year - and that's when it got frantic.</p><h2>I forgot how much I hate exams</h2><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Exams! Studying! Tests! Revising! I thought I'd left this all behind when I left university.<p>Music exams are set and administered by external exam board organisations (I went with ABRSM). It involved learning and performing three pieces from a selection available, memorising scales and broken chords, doing sight-reading, and an aural test (listening to music, identifying traits, and singing it back as an "echo.")</p><p>In short, it aims to test the full range of skills required for you to be considered "good" at playing a given instrument.</p><p>It's all scored out of 150. You need 100 or more to pass, with 120 to 130 considered a "merit," and 130 above classified as a "distinction," the highest grade. The lion's share of the marks come from the three prepared pieces, worth up to 30 each, with the other three around 20 each.</p><p>After agreeing to take the test, I quickly realised I was nowhere near ready. My tutor must've rescheduled it at least half a dozen times to give give me more time to prepare, and I was practicing morning-and-evening by the end to try and get up to speed.</p><p>I ended up taking it in the first week of December - the last week available to do it before Christmas. I turned up with only minutes before it began, butchered the sight-reading, and actually felt my hands shaking at one point while performing. Not a great experience.</p><p>So, how did I do?</p><p><em>The Lincolnshire Poacher, above, was one of my exam pieces. Playing from memory without the sheet music in front of me, I'm wobbly on one or two bits.</em></p><h2>Music is an arcane mystery I wanted to unravel</h2><p>Part of the allure of learning music for me was the arcane mystery of it all. From the outside, the rules of music bear to no discernible relation to the "real" world. It has no clear grounding in scientific thought. Why are there only seven notes? Why is it written the way it is? Why do some notes have sharps or flats, and others don't? Why are some combinations of notes good, and others bad? Why is everything in Italian?</p><p>And yet somehow, it all comes together, like nothing else on earth. Like <em>magic</em>.</p><p>However I did in the exam, I knew that I'd made a little progress down this new road. I had learned the basics of a beautiful alchemy, of organic aural creation.</p><p>At least, that's what I told myself as I anxiously waited for my tutor to get back to me with the results.</p><p>After two long weeks of waiting, I finally got a text on Wednesday December 21, 2016. I passed!</p><p>In the end I did rather better than I thought would be, scoring 126, a merit. Even my sight-reading - which I had thought was diabolical, out-of-time, and incorrect - scored 16/21.</p><p><em>Na Krmitku, by Czech composer Petr Eben. This was my best exam piece - I scored 28/30.</em></p><h2>I've got a long way to go - but I'm proud of what I achieved</h2><p>All my life, I've loved drawing and painting. As such, I'm pretty good at it, and it rarely feels difficult. While I'm sure I struggled with it in the past, because I have two decades of experience to fall back on - much of it as a child - I can now produce relatively sophisticated pictures fairly easily. I don't really&#xa0;remember being "bad" at art.</p><p>Piano is not like that. I have to work at it constantly. I remember clearly when I sat in front of the keyboard, barely able to create a simple melody. Every plodding step and slow improvement I make, I have earned. And that makes it all the more satisfying.</p><p>Sure, I've got a long way to go until I'm as good as I want to be. Grade 1 is an exam more commonly associated with eight-year-olds than grown men. My rendition of "Metamorphosis II" is incomplete, and my education in classical music is still largely restricted to composers I have direct experience playing.</p><p>But I'm proud of what I accomplished, and I'd recommend it to anyone, regardless of age or ability. Take the plunge, you won't regret it.</p><div></div><div><div id="ooyala-post-container"></div></div><div></div><div></div>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-199-intravenous-treatment-thats-meant-to-cure-a-hangover-2016-12">I tried the £199 intravenous treatment that's meant to cure a hangover - here's the verdict</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="d2NWZqODE6zRh1S45ucDcnR1D2zvqV7W" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

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