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someone who saws a wooden box with horsehair and somehow makes you cry.
means A person who plays the violin, especially as a skilled or professional musician.
from From "violin," which comes through French and Italian from "violino," a diminutive of "viola" — meaning roughly "little viol." The whole family traces back to Medieval Latin "vitula," a stringed instrument, possibly linked to "vitulari," to rejoice or be merry. The "-ist" suffix, from Greek via Latin and French, simply marks the doer: one who does the thing. So a violinist is, etymologically, a maker of merry on a little fiddle.
- bow hair
- Real horse tail, often from cold Mongolian winters.
- left fingertips
- Calluses harden into permanent badges of practice.
- perfect pitch
- No frets means every note is a tiny gamble.
- Paganini myth
- Played so well people swore he sold his soul.
- brain wiring
- Decades of practice physically reshape motor cortex regions.
itzhak perlman — israeli violinist who has won 15 grammy awards and performed at multiple presidential inaugurations
hilary hahn — american violinist known for her bach solo recordings and performances with major orchestras since the 1990s
david garrett — german violinist who has recorded over 30 albums and holds the guinness world record for fastest violin performance