Violin (disambiguation) explained

A violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths.

Violin may also refer to:

Entertainment

• Violin (2011 film), a Malayalam film
• Violin (2017 film), a Russian film
• Violin (novel), novel by Anne Rice
• The Violin, a 2005 Mexican film

Music

• Violin (album), album by violinist Vanessa-Mae
• "Violin", a children's song by They Might Be Giants on their album No!
• "Violins", a song by Lagwagon on their album Hoss

Instruments

• Violin family, family of string based instruments developed in sixteenth century Italy
• Violin octet, family of string based instruments developed in twentieth century United States of America
• Bass violin, various bass instruments of the violin family
• Baritone violin, violin variant either one octave below convention or the third largest member of the violin octet family
• Baroque violin, violin whose design is based in the baroque period
• Electric violin, electrical variant of the standard violin
• Five string violin, five string variant of the violin
• Kit violin, small violin designed to fit in a pocket
• Nail violin, instrument categorised as a friction idiophone
• Stroh violin, violin that uses metal resonators or metal horns to amplify sounds
• Tenor violin, instrument with a range between a cello and a viola

Other uses

• Violin beetle, species of ground beetles
• Violin Island or Pulau Biola, island off the coast of Singapore
• Violin Memory, US manufacturer of flash memory arrays
• Violin plot, in mathematics a box plot that illustrates probability density function
• VIOLIN vaccine database

See also

• Fiddle, colloquial term for the instrument
• List of compositions for violin and orchestra
• List of violinists