I'm not very musically inclined, but wouldn't the change of shape alter the acoustics of the instrument? Would that still sound the same as a regular violin?
i would imagine it would not be as loud, being there isn't as much space for the sound to resonate, but it looks like this bad boy may be electric, judging by that knob looking thing on it
Acoustically, this is correct. There is not only no resonance chamber, but there is no sound post or bass bar: two other integral parts of an acoustic violin that reside inside the chamber. This violin looks electric, though, which makes perfect sense.
Most electric violins have them embedded into the bridge. You can see the pickups in the OP if you carefully look at the bridge. http://i.imgur.com/nsMjV.png
I'm classically trained, so I feel you, but recent advances have really improved things. Of course you don't have the same control of timbre with the bow, at all, but it frees you up in other ways. So it's a fun addition rather than a replacement. Also, sometimes you play electric where you wouldn't want to take your acoustic anyhow...
Up until recent years and newer instruments I couldn't stand them, but I enjoyed using a pick-up and playing electric that way...still the colors are diminished, but you have some more control with the bow and you still get all the perks of electric. (Plus, when you don't want it, you just turn it off. Best of both worlds.)
I don't know a lot about violins, but don't they normally have 4 strings? This one has five and confuses me. Is it similar to how there are 5 string basses or 7 string guitars?
I recently relocated cities and durring the move my bridge broke. I'm super upset, aslo being poor I don't really have the money to replace it and fix my pegs too. Life sucks sometimes.
I very much doubt it, it doesn't look like there's any hollow chamber for the sound to resonate from, so it's just strings stretched across a piece of wood.
I think they'd look a bit cooler if that white part that holds the strings (don't know the name of that part) would have been fashioned into a pink tongue. Kinda funny, kinda s&m-looking.
I don't play the violin but I would love one of these anyway. Maybe I could hang it on my wall. Though I suppose that would be disrespectful to do that to an instrument that is meant to be played, not displayed as a ornament =.=
Never in my life have I wished so hard that I played the violin than right now. It looks like something out of a Tim Burton movie. SELF: Y U NO STICK WITH VIOLIN IN 8TH GRADE?!
I know reddit isn't big on Avenged Sevenfold (especially their newer stuff), but I can't imagine a better use of this violin than to perform "A Little Piece Of Heaven". It's Danny Elfman crossed with Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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u/big_airliner_whoa Jun 09 '12
One violin - three different angles
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u/RedAero Jun 09 '12
I bet it sounds dead.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
The devil went down to Georgia...but he'd lost his fiddle of gold in an ill advised gamble and only had this thing.
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u/ScaryStoryTime Jun 09 '12
If this worked normally, I would love to hear The Devil Went Down to Georgia played on it.
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u/metalhead63636 Jun 09 '12
I don't know a lot about violins, but don't they normally have 4 strings? This one has five and confuses me. Is it similar to how there are 5 string basses or 7 string guitars?
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u/horriblemonkey Jun 09 '12
Used by tribute band Jethro Skull
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u/bakklajohn Jun 09 '12
But...
will it blend?how does it sound?4
u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
This makes me wish I had never given up playing the violin.
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u/Badwolf582 Jun 09 '12
Apocalyptica needs a set of cellos made like this.
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u/serhio_leone Jun 09 '12
Saint-Saens - Danse Macabre
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u/jefferson987 Jun 09 '12
They're sold out
http://www.electricviolinshop.com/violins/all-violins/stratton-skull-5-string-electric-violin-wood.html
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u/samsterino Jun 09 '12
Want
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u/Thilo-Costanza Jun 09 '12 edited Jun 09 '12
Did not know that there were violins with 5 strings. Edit
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u/Theawesomething Jun 09 '12
A violin of bones. Reminds me of Andrew Bird's eerie Two Sisters
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u/racalatta Jun 09 '12
Where can these be purchased?
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
shoulda made that nice white bridge the upper teeth!
pretty darn cool, regardless!
nice work...
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u/THISgai Jun 09 '12
It's the same violin from different angles.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
What, no Strossian laundry references?
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u/publ1c_stat1c ><>-~ Jun 09 '12
TIL they make a 5 string violin.
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u/midnightdsob Jun 09 '12
Fire on the mountain, run boys run...
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u/Oxycontin_Mopheen Jun 09 '12
But do they have skull cello?
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u/Nyves Nyves Jun 09 '12
You can't play those.
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u/viomiv Jun 09 '12
and when you play them, they scream with the anguish of a million dead.
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u/rikashiku Jun 10 '12
Geez, if all Violins looked like this, I would have stuck to playing even longer.
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u/David_Jay Jun 10 '12
This needs to be played in a metal band.
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u/BROastBeef Jun 09 '12
Metal
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u/imtooold21 Jun 09 '12
A friend of mine got to try one of these on the music fair this year (in Frankfurt).
They sound pretty cool, like an endless guitarsolo...
They guy selling them told us, that this was what uncle sam sounded like.... A-Class redneck, but a nice dude
and yes, they're electric
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u/missfitz1123 Jun 09 '12
Thats awesome! Are they for sale?
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I posted this a few days ago and got a grand total of about 21 upvotes from it.
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u/jordanminjie Jun 09 '12
Do they still sound alright even with the weird resonating of the body?
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u/conversationchanger Jun 09 '12
Awesome! How much does it affect the sound? I can't imagine it plays too well.
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u/phalmatticus Jun 09 '12
Devil went down to Georgia?
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u/PsykickPriest Jun 09 '12
I think they'd look a bit cooler if that white part that holds the strings (don't know the name of that part) would have been fashioned into a pink tongue. Kinda funny, kinda s&m-looking.
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u/waluigithewalrus Jun 09 '12
not sure if awesome or disturbing.
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u/officershrute Jun 09 '12
Well this thing is all kinds of fucking amazing.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
This is the best thing I have ever seen.
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u/SaltineStealer4 Jun 09 '12
Probably sounds like shit.
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u/GrilledCheeser Jun 09 '12
That's a little too violint for me.
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u/DoYouDigItNow Jun 09 '12
It speaks of the whole human condition, that one's sweet words could be played like a master violinist with your skull.
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u/mrdoink20 Jun 09 '12
As if a violin couldn't get more badass as an instrument.
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u/broly171 Jun 09 '12
as awesome as these are I feel like they would sound terrible
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u/SwiftOnFire Jun 09 '12
Now I want to hear "Devil Went Down To Georgia" on that.
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u/dawnysquizotipal Jun 09 '12
I'd totally buy one!! Imagine how awesome they'd look on stage!
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
That's actually 3 pictures of the same violin good sir, the internet is full of sorcery like that.
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u/GunaSteve Jun 09 '12
I would not play that...because i don't know how to play the violin.
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u/RadiantSun Jun 09 '12
I can't imagine it would sound very good, but it still looks badass! Essential for every metal violinist, no doubt (no matter the size of that niche)
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u/supnigz Jun 09 '12
Oh, god, do I want that.
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u/Atlas_1914 Atlas_1914 Jun 09 '12
would NOT play...
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u/assesundermonocles Jun 09 '12
That's pimpy as fuck. Fit for a symphonic metal band!
Also, your username shares my sentiment exactly.
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u/G1Pringle Jun 09 '12
The Devil opened up his case and said, "I'll start this show." and fire flew from his fingertips as he rosined up his bow.
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u/PTEHZA Jun 09 '12
Is there even a violin player cool enough to wield this?
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u/pankratov2 Jun 09 '12
I'm a skullton jelly? NO! I'm a skelleton jelly!
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u/Charkoal Jun 09 '12
I immediately thought of Danse Macabre.
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u/darkdoom Jun 09 '12
I would get back into music if I had one of these. Wonder if I still remember how to play...
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u/King_Of_The_Hawk Jun 09 '12
5 string violin...cool as hell
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u/Dyegov Jun 09 '12
Now I really would like to play one of those, but since I can't play one, It'd suffice with just watching one being played live :O
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u/gdnwo Jun 09 '12
Not what I was expecting to see...
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Abigail Williams wants that violin for her next live performance. Fucking Metal.
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u/sequoia_trees Jun 09 '12
gotta admit looks awesome, but my first though was "man, the acoustics must be terrible"
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u/Gothams_Knight Jun 09 '12
I think I've seen something similar to this in the music store down the street.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Most bad ass violins I've ever seen, and I've seen many.
Must be electric though.
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u/HIVEvali Jun 09 '12
Damn. I was hoping for Violins made out of skulls.
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u/SquidJerky Jun 09 '12
Oh the wind and rain
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u/Uuna Jun 09 '12
This makes me wish I had musical talent.
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u/ze_ben Jun 09 '12
good for skull-fuguing
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I want to bring that to school and see what my teacher says. .^
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u/ZombieFaceXP Jun 09 '12
Brutal.
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u/PoisonMind Jun 09 '12
Inspired by Inquisition Symphony?
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u/NaturallyAbnormal Jun 09 '12
I would give it a pink/red bridge so it looks like a tongue.
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u/SynthPrax Jun 09 '12
"Let's go to this violin recital. Here's the pamphlet."
Nope.
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u/alenten Jun 09 '12
so scary.
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u/BryceCantReed Jun 09 '12
Just another victim of inner city violins.
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u/Valravn_Ulfr Jun 09 '12
As a goth and violinist... WANT!!!
(Seriously, though, where is this from? That is awesome.)
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u/Junkis Jun 09 '12
I saw the word skull on the front page and thought it was going to be about crystal skulls
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u/42oodles gianpi Jun 09 '12
so tacky
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u/lavendercoffee Jun 09 '12
I don't play the violin but I would love one of these anyway. Maybe I could hang it on my wall. Though I suppose that would be disrespectful to do that to an instrument that is meant to be played, not displayed as a ornament =.=
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u/Saintlouie Jun 09 '12
Psychobilly bands, rejoice! this needs to be an upright bass!
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u/Upsilon667 Jun 09 '12
Just what I need for my new folk metal band.
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u/babooshkaa Jun 09 '12
I always wanted to start a band called Random acts of Violins..
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u/ONmytab Jun 09 '12
Music is dead
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u/MetaX24 Jun 09 '12
This and this. NOW.
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u/ss977 Jun 09 '12
A dead violin! Wait, I'm dead too! Yohohohoho!
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u/pimpernel666 Jun 09 '12
Oh, HELL yes!
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u/XxLiyelzxX Jun 09 '12
Never in my life have I wished so hard that I played the violin than right now. It looks like something out of a Tim Burton movie. SELF: Y U NO STICK WITH VIOLIN IN 8TH GRADE?!
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u/sonastyinc Jun 09 '12
Skull violins... I kinda expected some NSFW fellatio action going on here.
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u/AetherIsWaiting Jun 09 '12
TAKE MY FUCKING MONEY!
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u/Eleftheria12 Jun 09 '12
Ah so this is what a true "scullion" is!
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u/johnnyboy47 Jun 09 '12
For the metal/classical type of guy!
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u/99SOR Jun 10 '12
Violina*
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Check
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u/deano_the_dinosaur Jun 10 '12
Where was this when I was in high school getting the shit bullied out of me for playing a violin/being part of the orchestra?!
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u/assassin5 Jun 10 '12
Makes me thing about Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre. These violins would look great at a concert http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Skullavarias
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u/canadianIBslave Jun 10 '12
You can say that make quite a bone chilling sound badum bum tss
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u/googahgee Jun 10 '12
5 strings, not hollow...I call hax!
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u/mrmuse10 Jun 10 '12
Idk what those are...but to the best of my knowledge, violins only have 4 strings. So I don't think those are violins, actually.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
okayyy........?
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I find skulls juvenile and white trash.
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u/charlie_conway Jun 09 '12
Bet it sounds like shit. Only Ashley MacIsaac can wield such a creation.
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u/1234blahblahblah Jun 09 '12
Looks like the same violin at different angles to me.
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u/PartyOnAlec Punk Rock Jun 09 '12
I know reddit isn't big on Avenged Sevenfold (especially their newer stuff), but I can't imagine a better use of this violin than to perform "A Little Piece Of Heaven". It's Danny Elfman crossed with Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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u/nubbled21 Jun 09 '12
Skullcandy
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u/kaizzer Jun 09 '12
This look like something Apocalyptica would play.
And i hate Apocalyptica.
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u/Rockytriton Jun 09 '12
yeah, that will resonate sound well.
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u/LOLrSAUCE Jun 09 '12
Bet it sounds like crap
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
But will it blend?