Hoe does a violin work
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Generally, a violin is composed by four strings, bridge, body and a bow. It is a string instrument that we use to produce music.
To look at a violin, the first thing you will notice is the string part of this instrument. We all know that we can hear sound is because our eardrums can get very tiny vibration that caused by the sound wave. [Figure 1] This travelling sound wave is caused by vibration and spread out by the disturbance in the air1.
Therefore, to make the sound in the first place, we need something that vibrates. The essential vibration parts of the violin are the four strings, and the vibration is caused by the drag of the bow.
The action of the bow, which drives the strings, is a regular cycle of stick-slip.This involves some interesting properties of friction, the force that makes things difficult to slide. When this friction takes place, the vibration of the strings occurs...