I'm going to buy a violin and I don't quite understand the difference between an electric violin and an ordinary wooden violin.

1, with or without a sound box

Electric violin: do not need to *** sound box, because the vibration of the strings to rely on the string root of the lower part of the several magnetic pickups (like the electric guitar's) pick up, and then amplified through the sound. Headphones can also be used, so you can practice without disturbing others. The electric koti can be played unplugged, and the sound is extremely low, like a mosquito squawking.

Violin: must need to sound box, the lower left side of the panel sticky bass beam, both play a reinforcing role, but also with the role of sound. When the bow and string friction makes the string vibration, through the violin horse caused panel vibration, but also through the sound post so that the back plate vibration, E string vibration is less, while the G string vibration is larger, so that the bass beam has a greater vibration, and cause *** sound box vibration.

2, the sound generator is different.

Ordinary violin sound principle: is the first by the bow to rub the strings, the strings due to friction and vibration, the vibration will be transmitted to the bridge, and the bridge will then vibration to the panel, the vibration of the panel at this time, the air inside the violin will also vibrate, the vibration of these air because in the internal has been crashed to and fro, so the sound is usually very loud.

Electronic violin: there is no speaker, so when the sound is transmitted from the bridge, there is no panel to vibrate, but by an electronic part, called a pickup, to sense the vibration of the bridge, the pickup will be sensed by the wire to the speaker, and then send out the sound. Since there's no air crashing around in the closed case during this process, the sound is very whisper-quiet.

3, the sound quality is different

Wooden relationship, air vibration in the wood, the beautiful sound, is the electronic speakers can not be done, so the concert performance, usually to the ordinary violin-based.

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