Violina
Violina vel violinum, aut fidicula vel fidicula violina, est chordophonum plerumque ligneum, quod quattuor (vel multo rarius quinque) nervis vel chordis intervallis paribus, scil. diapente perfectis, intendi solet. Olim nervi ex intestinis ovium vel equorum faciebantur. Hodie autem violinistae nervis metallicis saepius utuntur, nisi forte opera antiquiora producentes etiam violinas illi mori antiquiori adaptent.

Violina canunt (vel violinam tangunt) tractantes super nervos arcum ex materia lignea et saetis equinis factum, quae actio facit nervos oscillare. Ad hanc oscillationem nervorum efficiendam saetas resina Colophonia illini oportet, ut eo modo exasperatae melius adhaereant nervis. Sunt et quarundam compositionum partes, quas ad producendas praescriptum est, ut sonus digitis e violina carpendus sit. Id a compositoribus praescribitur addita adnotatione Italiane pizzicato, abbreviata pizz., cum usus arcus vocabulis arco vel ord(inario) iubeatur. Adnotatione col legno (id est 'ligno') utuntur, ut violinistae contra morem solitum ligneam arcus partem adhibeant.

Violinistae notabiles 

 Salvator Accardo
 Thomas Albinoni
 Beniaminus Basner
 Antonius Bazzini
 Samuel Crompton
 Gualtherius Damrosch
 Alexander Feye
 Petrus Locatelli
 Alexius L'vov
 Lorin Maazel
 Carolus Mannelli
 Iudas Menuhin
 Leopoldus Mozartus
 Nicolaus Paganini
 Ricardus Strauss.
 Antonius Vivaldi.

Notae

Nexus interni
 Andreas Guarnerius
 Quadricinium fidium
 Antonius Stradivarius - factor violinarum

Bibliographia
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Menuhin, Yehudi. 1996. The Violin. Flammarion. ISBN 2-08-013623-2.
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Regazzi, Roberto. 1990. The Complete Luthier's Library: A Useful International Critical Bibliography for the Maker and the Connoisseur of Stringed and Plucked Instruments. Bononiae: Florenus. ISBN 88-85250-01-7.
Rowland-Entwistle, Theodore. 1967, 1974. The Violin. Dover Publications. ISBN 0-340-05992-3.
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Strange, Patricia, et Allen Strange. 2001. The Contemporary Violin: Extended Performance Techniques. Berkeleiae: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-22409-4.

Chordophona