Singing Strings
When you play an instrument from the string family, that’s exactly what you do. Rubbing or plucking the strings makes they produce sounds.
To play a violin, you stroke its strings with a bow. A bow is a springy wooden stick with strands of horsehair stretched from one end to the other. Stroking the strings makes them vibrate, or “sing”.
The strings of the violin are stretched over a thin wooden part called a bridge. As the strings vibrate, they make the bridge vibrate. The vibrating bridge sends sound bouncing around inside the violin. All these vibrations produce the music you hear. You can make the sounds higher or lower by pressing down on the violin strings in different places. Pressing a string changes the length of the part that vibrates. The shorter the vibrating part, the faster it moves and the higher the note sounds.
Some stringed instruments are played without a bow. The Indian sitar, for instance, is played with a wire pick worn on the musician’s right index finger. The musician plucks the strings to play a tune. A harp is played by plucking the strings with your fingers.
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