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Electric violin

Index Electric violin

An electric violin is a violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound. [1]

172 relations: Adam Taubitz, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Avant-garde, Baritone, Bass guitar, Ben Lee (violinist), Ben Mink, Billy Currie, Bowed string instrument, Boyd Tinsley, Britain's Got Talent, Caravan (band), Carla Kihlstedt, Charge amplifier, Charles Wuorinen, Charlie Bisharat, Choir, Christian Howes (musician), Classical music, Contemporary classical music, Country music, Curved Air, DAAU, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Darryl Way, Dave Matthews Band, Dave Swarbrick, David Cross (musician), David LaFlamme, David Ragsdale, Deni Bonet, Didier Lockwood, Doctors of Madness, Doll Factory, Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Doug Kershaw, Ed Alleyne-Johnson, Ed Wright (composer), Eddie Jobson, Effects unit, Eileen Ivers, Electric cello, Electric guitar, Electric Light Orchestra, Electromagnetic induction, Electronic music, Embar Kannan, Emilie Autumn, Experimental music, Fairport Convention, ..., Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, Filipinos, Flight of the Bumblebee, Flogging Molly, FM (Canadian band), Folk metal, Folk rock, Frank Zappa, Fret, Ganesh and Kumaresh, Gary Numan, Gentle Giant, Geoffrey Richardson (musician), George Beauchamp, Guinness World Records, Hawkwind, Heavy metal music, Henry Lau, Hip hop music, Hugh Marsh, Irish fiddle, Jazz, Jazz fusion, Jean-Luc Ponty, Jenny Bae, Jerald Daemyon, Jerry Goodman, Jim Lea (musician), Joel Zifkin, John Adams (composer), Kansas, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Keith McMillen, King Crimson, Korpiklaani, L. Shankar, L. Subramaniam, Laurie Anderson, Levellers (band), Lili Haydn, Lindsey Stirling, Linzi Stoppard, List of electric violinists, Loreena McKennitt, Lorenza Ponce, Machine head, Magnetism, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Mark Wood (violinist), Mat Maneri, Michael A. Levine, Michelle Lambert, MIDI, Mik Kaminski, Minimalism, Nash the Slash, National String Instrument Corporation, Ne Obliviscaris (band), New-age music, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nico Muhly, Noel Webb (musician), Operator Please, Output impedance, Papa John Creach, Pickup (music technology), Piezoelectricity, Polyphony and monophony in instruments, Pop music, Pop punk, Preamplifier, Proto-punk, Ray Shulman, Ric Sanders, Richard Thompson (musician), Riverdance, Robby Steinhardt, Rock music, Roland Corporation, Roxy Music, Sean Mackin (musician), Semi-acoustic guitar, Signal processing, Simon House, Single coil guitar pickup, Slade, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Solid body, Stephen Nachmanovitch, Stratospheerius, String Driven Thing, String resonance, Stuff Smith, Sue Son, Sugizo, Sympathetic string, Synthesizer, Taiwan, Taylor Davis (violinist), TerraTec, Terry Riley, The Dharma at Big Sur, Timbre, Today (U.S. TV program), Tracy Silverman, Turisas, U.K. (band), Ultravox, Unison, Urban Blitz, Van der Graaf Generator, Vanessa-Mae, Vega Company, Violectra, Violin, Warren Ellis (musician), Whistle Down the Wind (1996 musical), Yamaha Corporation, Yann Tiersen, Yellowcard, Yuri Landman, ZOX. Expand index (122 more) »

Adam Taubitz

Adam Taubitz (born 7 October 1967 in Chorzów, Upper Silesia) is a German jazz and classic musician, violinist, trumpeter, guitarist bandleader, and composer.

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Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber Kt (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre.

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Avant-garde

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.

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Baritone

A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice types.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Ben Lee (violinist)

Ben Lee (born 1980 in Eastbourne, Sussex) is a British electric violinist and composer/producer.

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Ben Mink

Benjamin Mink (born January 22, 1951) is a Canadian songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, best known as a long-time collaborator with Canadian singer k.d. lang.

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Billy Currie

William Lee "Billy" Currie (born 1 April 1950, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England) is an English violist, violinist, pianist, keyboardist, and songwriter.

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Bowed string instrument

Bowed string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by a bow rubbing the strings.

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Boyd Tinsley

Boyd Calvin Tinsley (born May 16, 1964) is an American violinist and mandolinist who is best known for having been a member of the Dave Matthews Band.

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Britain's Got Talent

Britain's Got Talent (often abbreviated to BGT) is a British talent show competition, and is part of the ''Got Talent'' franchise created by Simon Cowell.

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Caravan (band)

Caravan are an English band from the Canterbury area, founded by former Wilde Flowers members David Sinclair, Richard Sinclair, Pye Hastings and Richard Coughlan in 1968.

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Carla Kihlstedt

Carla Kihlstedt (born 1971) is an American composer, violinist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania and currently working from a home studio on Cape Cod.

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Charge amplifier

A charge amplifier is an electronic current integrator that produces a voltage output proportional to the integrated value of the input current.

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Charles Wuorinen

Charles Peter Wuorinen (born June 9, 1938) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City.

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Charlie Bisharat

Charlie Bisharat is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist who was a member of the band Shadowfax.

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Choir

A choir (also known as a quire, chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.

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Christian Howes (musician)

Christian Howes (born February 21, 1972) is an American musician, teacher and composer.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s to early 1990s, which includes modernist, postmodern, neoromantic, and pluralist music.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Curved Air

Curved Air are a pioneering English progressive rock group formed in 1970 by musicians from mixed artistic backgrounds, including classical, folk, and electronic sound.

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DAAU

DAAU (short for Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung) is a music group from Antwerp, Belgium.

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Daniel Bernard Roumain

Daniel Bernard Roumain (known by his initials, DBR; born 1970) is a classically trained composer, performer, violinist, and band-leader noted for blending funk, rock, hip-hop and classical music into an energetic and experiential sonic form.

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Darryl Way

Richard Darryl Way (born 17 December 1948 in Taunton, Somerset) is an English rock and classical musician who was a founding member of Curved Air and co-writer of their only hit single, "Back Street Luv".

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Dave Matthews Band

Dave Matthews Band, also known by the acronym DMB, is an American rock band that was formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991.

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Dave Swarbrick

David Cyril Eric Swarbrick (5 April 1941 – 3 June 2016) was an English folk musician and singer-songwriter.

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David Cross (musician)

David Cross (born 23 April 1949 in Turnchapel near Plymouth, England) is an English electric violinist, best known for playing with progressive rock band King Crimson during the 1970s (particularly on Larks' Tongues in Aspic and Starless and Bible Black).

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David LaFlamme

David LaFlamme (born May 4, 1941, in New Britain, Connecticut) is an American singer and violinist.

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David Ragsdale

David Lasater Ragsdale, (born April 3, 1958) has been the violinist for Kansas from 1991 to 1997 and from 2006 to the present.

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Deni Bonet

Deni Bonet is a US-born singer/songwriter, electric violinist, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Didier Lockwood

Didier Lockwood (11 February 1956 – 18 February 2018) was a French jazz violinist.

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Doctors of Madness

Doctors of Madness were a British protopunk art rock band active as a recording and touring band from 1975 until late 1978.

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Doll Factory

Doll Factory is an electronic rock/post-punk revivalhttp://www.legendsmagazine.net/133/doll.htmhttp://www.myspace.com/dollfactoryhttp://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id.

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Don "Sugarcane" Harris

Don Francis Bowman "Sugarcane" Harris (June 18, 1938 – November 30, 1999) was an American rock and roll violinist and guitarist.

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Doug Kershaw

Douglas James Kershaw (born January 24, 1936) is an American fiddle player, singer and songwriter from Louisiana.

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Ed Alleyne-Johnson

Ed Alleyne-Johnson is a British electric violinist and prolific busker.

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Ed Wright (composer)

Edward Charles "Ed" Wright (born 4 August 1980 in Hawridge, Buckinghamshire) is a British composer known largely for electronic and mixed media sound art.

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Eddie Jobson

Edwin "Eddie" Jobson (born 28 April 1955) is an English keyboardist and violinist noted for his use of synthesizers.

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Effects unit

An effects unit or effects pedal is an electronic or digital device that alters the sound of a musical instrument or other audio source.

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Eileen Ivers

Eileen Ivers (born July 13, 1965) is an American fiddler.

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Electric cello

The electric cello is a type of cello that relies on electronic amplification (rather than acoustic resonance) to produce sound.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Electric Light Orchestra

The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1970, by songwriters/multi-instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood with drummer Bev Bevan.

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Electromagnetic induction

Electromagnetic or magnetic induction is the production of an electromotive force (i.e., voltage) across an electrical conductor in a changing magnetic field.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Embar Kannan

Embar S. Kannan is an award-winning and pioneering violinist in the fields of Carnatic Music and Tamil Film Music.

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Emilie Autumn

Emilie Autumn Liddell (born on September 22, 1979), better known by her stage name Emilie Autumn, is an American singer-songwriter, poet, violinist, and actress.

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Experimental music

Experimental music is a general label for any music that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.

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Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention are a British folk rock band.

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Fender Musical Instruments Corporation

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC), commonly referred to simply as Fender, is an American manufacturer of stringed instruments and amplifiers.

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Filipinos

Filipinos (Mga Pilipino) are the people who are native to, or identified with the country of the Philippines.

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Flight of the Bumblebee

"Flight of the Bumblebee" is an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900.

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Flogging Molly

Flogging Molly is an Irish-American seven-piece Celtic punk band from Los Angeles, California and led by Irish vocalist Dave King, formerly of the hard rock band Fastway.

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FM (Canadian band)

FM is a Canadian progressive rock music group formed in 1976 in Toronto.

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Folk metal

Folk metal is a fusion genre of heavy metal music and traditional folk music that developed in Europe during the 1990s.

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker.

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Fret

A fret is a raised element on the neck of a stringed instrument.

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Ganesh and Kumaresh

Ganesh and Kumaresh are noted Indian duo of violin players who are a part of the Carnatic music (South India) fraternity.

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Gary Numan

Gary Anthony James Webb (born 8 March 1958), known professionally as Gary Numan, is an English singer, songwriter, composer, musician and record producer.

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Gentle Giant

Gentle Giant were an English progressive rock band active between 1970 and 1980.

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Geoffrey Richardson (musician)

Peter Geoffrey Richardson (born 15 July 1950 in Hinckley, Leicestershire), is a viola player and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with Caravan, Murray Head and the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.

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George Beauchamp

George Delmetia Beauchamp (March 18, 1899 – March 30, 1941) was an American inventor of musical instruments and a founder of National Stringed Instrument Corporation and Rickenbacker guitars.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Hawkwind

Hawkwind are an English rock band and one of the earliest space rock groups.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.

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Henry Lau

Henry Lau (born October 11, 1989), referred to as Henry, is a Chinese Canadian singer, rapper, dancer, composer, beatboxer, entertainer and actor mostly active in South Korea.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Hugh Marsh

Hugh Marsh (born June 5, 1955 in Montreal, Quebec) is a violinist from Toronto, known for his electric violin sound.

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Irish fiddle

The Irish fiddle is, historically the last, of the most important instruments in the traditional repertoire of Irish music.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Jean-Luc Ponty

Jean-Luc Ponty (born 29 September 1942) is a French jazz violinist and composer.

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Jenny Bae

Jenny Bae (born 1980) is a South Korean crossover violinist.

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Jerald Daemyon

Jerald Daemyon is an American electric violinist born in Detroit, Michigan.

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Jerry Goodman

Jerry Goodman (born March 16, 1949) is an American violinist best known for playing electric violin in the bands the Flock and the jazz fusion Mahavishnu Orchestra.

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Jim Lea (musician)

James Whild "Jim" Lea (born 14 June 1949) is an English musician, most notable for playing bass guitar, keyboards, piano, violin, guitar, and singing backing vocals in Slade from their inception until 1992, and for co-writing most of their songs.

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Joel Zifkin

Joel Zifkin is a Canadian musician and songwriter born in Montreal on April 14, 1954.

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John Adams (composer)

John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer of classical music and opera, with strong roots in minimalism.

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Kansas

Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States.

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Kate & Anna McGarrigle

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Keith McMillen

Keith McMillen (Born July 10, 1957, Bermuda) is an audio and music technology engineer and entrepreneur, known for developing instruments, including the first modern violin to control synthesizers, first programmable audio mixer, the first blue-tooth violin bow, and several next generation MIDI controllers as well as innovations to improve audio quality for internet telephony.

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King Crimson

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Korpiklaani

Korpiklaani (Finnish: The Backwoods Clan) is a folk metal band from Finland who were formerly known as Shaman.

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L. Shankar

Lakshminarayana Shankar (born 26 April 1950), also known as L. Shankar and Shenkar, is an Indian-born American violinist, singer and composer.

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L. Subramaniam

Pandit Dr.

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Laurie Anderson

Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.

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Levellers (band)

Levellers are an English folk rock band formed in Brighton, England in 1988, consisting of Mark Chadwick (guitar and vocals), Jeremy Cunningham (bass guitar), Charlie Heather (drums), Jon Sevink (violin), Simon Friend (guitar) and Matt Savage (keyboards).

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Lili Haydn

Lili Haydn (born 1969) is a Canadian-born rock violinist, vocalist, recording artist, and composer.

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Lindsey Stirling

Lindsey Stirling (born September 21, 1986) is an American violinist, dancer, performance artist, and composer.

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Linzi Stoppard

Linzi Stoppard (born 1979 in Surrey, England) is a British violinist.

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List of electric violinists

This is a list of violinists notable for their work with electric violin.

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Loreena McKennitt

Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian musician, composer, harpist, accordionist, and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes.

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Lorenza Ponce

Lorenza Ponce is an American violinist and string arranger.

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Machine head

A machine head (also referred to as a tuning machine, tuner, or gear head) is a geared apparatus for tuning stringed musical instruments by adjusting string tension.

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Magnetism

Magnetism is a class of physical phenomena that are mediated by magnetic fields.

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Mahavishnu Orchestra

Mahavishnu Orchestra were a multinational jazz-rock fusion band formed in New York City in 1971 by English guitarist John McLaughlin.

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Mark Wood (violinist)

Mark Winthrop Wood is an electric violinist, as well as the founder of Wood Violins, a company that makes unique electric violins.

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Mat Maneri

Mat Maneri (born October 4, 1969) is an American composer, violin, and viola player.

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Michael A. Levine

Michael A. Levine (born 20 February 1964 in Tokyo, Japan) is an American composer, music producer and screenwriter born in Japan and currently based in Los Angeles.

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Michelle Lambert

Michelle Lambert (born May 2, 1985) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, born in Covelo, California and raised in the Bay Area.

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MIDI

MIDI (short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related music and audio devices.

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Mik Kaminski

Michael Kaminski (born 2 September 1951) is an English musician.

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Minimalism

In visual arts, music, and other mediums, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Nash the Slash

James Jeffrey "Jeff" Plewman (March 26, 1948 – May 10, 2014), better known by his stage name Nash the Slash, was a Canadian musician.

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National String Instrument Corporation

The National String Instrument Corporation was a guitar company that formed to manufacture the first resonator guitars.

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Ne Obliviscaris (band)

Ne Obliviscaris (Latin for "forget not") are a six-piece progressive metal band from Melbourne.

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New-age music

New-age music is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism.

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are an Australian rock band formed in Melbourne in 1983 by vocalist Nick Cave, multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey and guitarist Blixa Bargeld.

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Nico Muhly

Nico Muhly (born August 26, 1981) is an American contemporary classical music composer and arranger who has worked and recorded with both classical and pop musicians.

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Noel Webb (musician)

Noel Webb is an American jazz violinist, musical score composer, actor, and voice-over artist.

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Operator Please

Operator Please were an Australian pop band, originating on the Gold Coast of Queensland, in 2005.

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Output impedance

The output impedance of an electrical network is the measure of the opposition to current flow (impedance), both static (resistance) and dynamic (reactance), into the load network being connected that is internal to the electrical source.

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Papa John Creach

John Henry Creach (May 28, 1917 – February 22, 1994), better known as Papa John Creach, was an American blues violinist, who has also played "classical, jazz, be-bop, R&B, pop and acid rock" music.

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Pickup (music technology)

A pickup is a transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an instrument amplifier to produce musical sounds through a loudspeaker in a speaker enclosure.

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Piezoelectricity

Piezoelectricity is the electric charge that accumulates in certain solid materials (such as crystals, certain ceramics, and biological matter such as bone, DNA and various proteins) in response to applied mechanical stress.

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Polyphony and monophony in instruments

Polyphony is a property of musical instruments that means that they can play multiple independent melody lines simultaneously.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Pop punk

Pop punk (also known as punk-pop) is a music genre that fuses elements of pop music with punk rock.

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Preamplifier

A preamplifier (preamp or "pre") is an electronic amplifier that converts a weak electrical signal into an output signal strong enough to be noise-tolerant and strong enough for further processing, or for sending to a power amplifier and a loudspeaker.

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Proto-punk

Proto-punk (or protopunk) is the rock music played by garage bands from the 1960s and early 1970s that presaged the punk rock movement.

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Ray Shulman

Raymond Shulman (born 8 December 1949) is a Scottish musician, and the youngest of three brothers in progressive rock band, Gentle Giant.

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Ric Sanders

Richard 'Ric' Sanders (born 8 December 1952, in Birmingham, West Midlands) is an English violinist who has played in jazz-rock, folk rock, British folk rock and folk groups, including Soft Machine and Fairport Convention.

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Richard Thompson (musician)

Richard Thompson, OBE (born 3 April 1949) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Riverdance

Riverdance is a theatrical show consisting mainly of traditional Irish music and dance.

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Robby Steinhardt

Robert Eugene "Robby" Steinhardt (born May 25, 1950) is a rock violinist and singer best known for his work with the group Kansas, for which he was co-lead singer / "frontman" and mc along with keyboardist Steve Walsh, from 1973 to 1982 and from 1997 to 2006.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Roland Corporation

is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment and software.

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Roxy Music

Roxy Music were an English rock band formed in 1970 by Bryan Ferry, who became the band's lead vocalist and chief songwriter, and bassist Graham Simpson.

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Sean Mackin (musician)

Sean Mackin (born April 30, 1979) is an American rock musician.

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Semi-acoustic guitar

A semi-acoustic guitar or hollow-body electric is a type of electric guitar that originates from the 1930s.

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Signal processing

Signal processing concerns the analysis, synthesis, and modification of signals, which are broadly defined as functions conveying "information about the behavior or attributes of some phenomenon", such as sound, images, and biological measurements.

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Simon House

Simon House (born 29 August 1948 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England) is a composer and classically trained violinist and keyboard player, perhaps best known for his work with space rock band Hawkwind.

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Single coil guitar pickup

A single coil pickup is a type of magnetic transducer, or pickup, for the electric guitar and the electric bass.

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Slade

Slade are an English rock band from Wolverhampton.

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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (often abbreviated to SGM) is an American experimental rock band, formed in 1999 in Oakland, California.

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Solid body

A solid-body musical instrument is a string instrument such as a guitar, bass or violin built without its normal sound box and relying on an electromagnetic pickup system to directly receive the vibrations of the strings.

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Stephen Nachmanovitch

Stephen Nachmanovitch is a musician, author, computer artist, and educator.

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Stratospheerius

Stratospheerius are a band based out of New York City that play music in a progressive rock, jazz fusion and jam band genres.

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String Driven Thing

String Driven Thing are a folk rock band from Scotland, originally formed in the 1960s and led by husband and wife Chris Adams and Pauline Adams.

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String resonance

String resonance occurs on string instruments.

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Stuff Smith

Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Smith (August 14, 1909 – September 25, 1967), better known as Stuff Smith, was an American jazz violinist.

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Sue Son

Son Sue-Kyung (Hangul: 손수경), better known by her stage name Sue Son, is a South Korean classical and crossover violinist, raised in the United Kingdom and based in Seoul.

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Sugizo

, born, better known exclusively by his stage name Sugizo, is a Japanese musician, singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, actor, writer and activist.

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Sympathetic string

Sympathetic strings or resonance strings are auxiliary strings found on many Indian musical instruments, as well as some Western Baroque instruments and a variety of folk instruments.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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Taylor Davis (violinist)

Taylor Davis (born March 20, 1987) is an American violinist, arranger, and composer.

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TerraTec

TerraTec Electronic GmbH is a German manufacturer of sound cards, computer speakers, webcams, computer mice, video grabbers and TV tuner cards.

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Terry Riley

Terrence Mitchell "Terry" Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician associated with the minimalist school of Western classical music, of which he was a pioneer.

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The Dharma at Big Sur

The Dharma at Big Sur is a composition for solo electric violin and orchestra by the American composer John Adams.

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Timbre

In music, timbre (also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics) is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

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Today (U.S. TV program)

Today, also called The Today Show, is an American news and talk morning television show that airs on NBC.

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Tracy Silverman

Tracy Silverman is an American violinist, composer, and producer.

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Turisas

Turisas is a Finnish metal band from Hämeenlinna.

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U.K. (band)

U.K. were a British progressive rock supergroup originally active from 1977 until 1980.

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Ultravox

Ultravox (earlier stylized as Ultravox!) were a British new wave band, formed in London in 1973 as Tiger Lily.

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Unison

In music, unison is two or more musical parts sounding the same pitch or at an octave interval, usually at the same time.

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Urban Blitz

Urban Blitz is best known for his "eerie and atmospheric" (Ira Robbins) electric violin, baritone violectra and lead guitar work with the 1970s London protopunk art rock band Doctors of Madness.

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Van der Graaf Generator

Van der Graaf Generator are an English progressive rock band, formed in 1967 in Manchester by singer-songwriters Peter Hammill and Chris Judge Smith and the first act signed by Charisma Records.

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Vanessa-Mae

Vanessa-Mae (陈美 Chén Měi) (born 27 October 1978) also called Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, is a British violinist with album sales reaching several million, having made her the wealthiest entertainer under 30 in the United Kingdom in 2006.

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Vega Company

The Vega Company was a musical instrument manufacturer that started operations in Boston, Massachusetts in 1881.

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Violectra

Violectra is the name of a range of electric violins, violas and cellos designed, developed and hand made by David Bruce Johnson, a Canadian violin maker settled in Birmingham, England.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Warren Ellis (musician)

Warren Ellis (born 14 February 1965) is an Australian-French musician and composer.

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Whistle Down the Wind (1996 musical)

Whistle Down the Wind is a musical with music composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, who also co-wrote its book with Patricia Knop and Gale Edwards, and its lyrics were written by Jim Steinman.

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Yamaha Corporation

() is a Japanese multinational corporation and conglomerate with a very wide range of products and services, predominantly musical instruments, electronics and power sports equipment.

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Yann Tiersen

Yann Tiersen (born 23 June 1970) is a French musician and composer.

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Yellowcard

Yellowcard was an American rock band that formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1997 and were based in Los Angeles beginning in 2000.

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Yuri Landman

Yuri Landman (born February 1, 1973) is a Dutch inventor of musical instruments and musician who has made several experimental electric string instruments for a number of artists including Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Liars, Jad Fair of Half Japanese, Liam Finn, and Laura-Mary Carter.

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ZOX

ZOX is a band from Providence, Rhode Island that is self-described as "violin-laced indie-rock." The band consists of four members: namesake John Zox (drums), Eli Miller (guitar, vocals), Spencer Swain (violin, vocals), and Dan Edinberg (bass, vocals).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_violin

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