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KEMENCE | KEMENCE | BAGLAMA | NEVUD | BUZUKI | PIANOLIN | | | | | | | |
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In Europe, the violin can be traced back to the 9th century, with
its origin possibly in Asia. Not less than 450 years were required
to bring it to its present form, representative of the experience
acquired throughout the centuries by the makers of stringed instruments.
The primitive form of the stringed instruments is the musical bow,
an arched stick held by a taut string tied to its two ends. The
string is divided by a loop or bridge. In order to enhance its resonance,
the primitive bow was held before the mouth. In the more evolved
forms, resonance enhancers included coconut, calabash (a hollowed
out, dried gourd generally used as a recipient), tortoise shells,
wooden boxes or pig bladders that were thrust tightly between the
strings and the bow.
In the manufacture of stringed instruments, TWO ORIGINAL FORMS were
already present in classical antiquity: the polygonal dmm of the
zither and the rounded sound-box of the lyre, carved so as to imitate
a tortoise shell, and used, apparently, as the first resonance device.
This distinction in form was accompanied by a distinction in usage.
The instrument with the polygonal drum, the more noble of the two,
was used exclusively for serious music and for accompanying religious
or lyric song; as for the lyre, it was a popular instrument used
in feasting.
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Dr. Cengiz Sarıkuş is being interested in manufacturing violin since 1980.The
patterns of violin has been designed with Italian methods and then
adopted to Turkish and Western musical technics.
The woods generally used by Dr. Cengiz Sarikus in violin making
are:
- spruce for the belly, the bass bar, and the sound post;
- maple for the back. the ribs. the neck and the
bridge;
- ebony for the fingerboard, the pegbox, the nut
and the saddle,
- rosewood for trie pegs and the button.
He makes maximum 10 violins in a year in order to preserve the quality
but there is a huge demand for his violins from Turkey and abroad.
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