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**__ Violent Violic __** JOUN! The ear piercing screams of the crowd deafened everyone on stage after the impressive Violic made its last but powerful stroke. Imagine you were there………

My instrument is called a violic witch is a viola and an electric Guitar put together. I have created this instrument because it sounded really interesting so I gave it a try.

My Violic has the base (body) of an electric guitar but the fingerboard, scrolls and the neck of a viola. Hence the name violic. On each side of the base (body) is a small gap in which a small string goes in the middle on either side of the base (body) in the centre of the base four strings run up along the fingerboard eventually meeting the scrolls and connecting to them. To play all you have to do is slide the bow across the strings like a violin.

The two small strings on either side of the violic make the sound of the electric guitar one side makes a low pitch electric sound and the other makes a high pitch electric sound. And if you slide the bow across the side string and the electric string at the same time it makes a low rich electric sound on one side and a high pitch electric sound on the other.

So if you considered buying the violic you won’t be disappointed.

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What is a Viola? The viola  is  a  string instrument that is cousin to the [|violin]. The viola sounds lower than a violin, but higher than a cello. It has four [|strings], called the C, G, D, and A strings. The viola is played with a [|bow] in the right hand. Playing with the bow is called arco. Sometimes the strings may be plucked ([|pizzicato]). Some people think that the viola is much bigger than a violin, but this is not true. On average, most violas are about 16 inches (40.64 cm) in length. This is only 2 inches (5.08 cm) longer than a  full-sized violin. The minimal size difference results in a  richer and mellower sound than that produced by the violin.
 * Description: Difference between a Violin and Viola ||

There are less viola  solos, though many violin or cello solos have been transcribed for the  viola. Most often, viola  parts are harmony rather than melody. However, a  few stand out pieces like Debussy’s [|//Sonata//]// for //[|//Flute//]//, //  Viola  // , and Harp // can give the violist  a  starring role. The viola  is often considered slightly more challenging to play than the violin. The bow is longer and the arm must be held a  little farther away from the body. Music must be bowed slightly quicker than violin work in order to achieve the appropriate sound at the appropriate time. It is one of the main instruments in a [|string quartet], along with two violins and a cello. The viola is found in [|chamber ensembles] of string instruments only, and also in full [|symphony orchestras] where strings, woodwinds, brass, and [|percussion] instruments play together. The viola can also be a solo instrument, but is mostly used in an orchestra. The person that repairs violas is called a [|luthier].
 * Viola ||

**__ William Primrose __** Born: [|August 23],  [|1904] Died: [|May 1],  [|1982]

William was a [|Scottish] [|violist] and teacher, probably the best known viola player of all time. He was born in Glasgow and studied violin all over the place. He went to Belgium to study under [|Eugène Ysae] who encouraged him to play the viola instead. In 1930, he joined Warwick Evans, John Pennington, and Thomas Petre as the violist in the [|London String Quartet]. The group dissolved in 1935. In 1937, he began playing in the [|NBC Symphony Orchestra] under [|Arturo Toscanini]. Primrose resigned in 1941 and his career took off when he started touring with Richard Crooks. . In 1946, he was the soloist in the first recording of [|Berlioz]'s [|//Harold in Italy//]. In 1944 he had commissioned a [|viola concerto] from [|Béla Bartók]. Left incomplete due to Bartók's death in 1945, it had to wait four years for its completion by [|Tibor Serly]. Primrose was the soloist in the world premiere performance of the concerto, on 2 December 1949. In 1953 he was made a Commander of the [|Order of the British Empire] (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II. Primrose was known for his tremendous technique.

**__ Lionel Tertis __** Born: 29 December 1876 Died: 22 February 1975

Under the extra influence of [|Oskar Nedbal], he did so and rapidly became one of the best known violists of his time, touring Europe and the USA as a soloist. Composers such as [|Arnold Bax], [|Frank Bridge], [|Gustav Holst] and [|William Walton] wrote pieces specially for him. The Walton piece was his Viola Concerto, however, Tertis never performed it because he couldn't understand it at that time. Not many people know that many violists were once violinists.
 * Lionel ** was an [|English] [|violist] and one of the first viola players to find international fame. He was born in West Hartlepool, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants. He firstly studied the [|violin] in [|Leipzig] and at the [|Royal Academy of Music] in [|London]. There he was encouraged by [|Alexander Mackenzie], the Principal, to take up the viola instead.