Smallest violin-world record set by Chen Lianzhi

GUANGZHOU, China -- 66-year-old senior violinist Chen Lianzhi

made a 1-centimeter-long violin which sets the new world record
for the Smallest violin. Chen used a 0.1-milimeter drill point to
shape a piece of maple the size of a thumbnail, and finally joined all
the components together with glue. "Anyhow, the strings of the
world's Smallest violin are so thin and it is not easy to play sound
music." Chen admitted.

Photo:"Compared with the common violins of 35.5-centimeter-long

bodies, these mini violins, called ant's violins, are so small, but they
consist of all the over thirty components of common violins," Chen
told the Guangzhou Daily. Born into a family of musicians, Chen
began playing music at age nine and is especially skilled at violin.
He had already made a 3.55-centimeter violin seven years ago. The
previous Guinness world record holder for the smallest violin was
was about 2.2-cenitmeter size.
World’s biggest violin goes from Guinness record to music fair

Constructed by 15 violin makers from the town of Markneukirchen

in Saxony, the violin has been officially entered into the Guinness
Book of Records. It stands 4.27 metres tall and the bow is 5.22
metres long, making it seven times the size of a conventional
violin. Not only that, but it takes three musicians to create any
sound out of the instrument because of its size. Two people have to
hold and maneuver the bow, while one person stands on a platform
to control the strings.

It took a tireless 1,300 hours to make the instrument, which is based

on an old Vogtland model, and it features more than a cubic metre
of spruce and maple, 40 kilograms of ebony and who knows how
much glue and varnish.

The purpose of the project? Well, not only does it show off the
extraordinary talent of German musical instrument craftsmanship,
but it can even be played like any other instrument, although three
octaves lower. And a piece has been composed especially for it.
 " News from the man cycling backwards: Christian
Adam (neé Patzig *1963) beat his own record as
he was sitting backwards on his bike and covered a
distance of 60,45 km in 5:08 h with playing his
A world record in cycling backwards was set up by violin. Where? A part of the highway St. Gallen
Christian Adam ( neé Patzig ) * 1963 from Nindorf near ( Switzerland ) was not yet opened for the usual
Meldorf / Germany. Without getting off the bike he was traffic. Coment from Christian Adam "Acoustics in
cycling 113,3 km within 6 hours under supervision of the Rosenbergtunnel was specific."
the local major Sprengel. Christian would have driven
further, if he had not crashed into another cyclist, who
wanted to enjoy the nature on a borrowed bike. As life
goes, this cyclist who fell victim to this attempt on the
road was the main police inspector of Meldorf. Although
he showed understanding for this enterprise which was
not really conform to the traffic regulations, Christian
had to pay for the cost of repairs.
 Most Number of Student Playing Violin set World
Record
23 Sep 2011, 1:30 am

More than 4,600 Taiwanese school children came together

for a marathon violin playing session on Sunday, breaking
a world record that had stood for 86 years.

An official from organization said that, 4,645 children

aged under 18 at a stadium in central Changhua county,
The performance was 30 seconds longer than the required
minimum of five minutes, it said.

"Creating a world record is not our goal. The event is to

review a music education promotion program for
schoolchildren launched seven years ago," Chang Chueh-
fen, a county official, told AFP
Violinist Ukrainian Oleksandr Bozhyk tried to set a new
world record to play four violins at once.  The attempt
took place in the city of Lviv. The feat will be submitted
to the Guinness Book of Records.
 Played with a double bow, this Relative Violin construction shares one
neck and the same strings. The two bridges are positioned in the normal
place on their respective violins. There are seven playable strings tuned in
fifths and three sympathetic ones. One bows two separate violins at the
same time, with pitch manipulation achieved traditionally by the left
hand, although it is placed between the two bows. As one goes up in pitch
on one violin, a mirror inversion of the same pitch happens on the other
violin. "The instrument works with Pythagorean logic and simplicity.. The
interval relationships on each shared string are, by the laws of the
harmonic series, unchangeable unless the thumb is utilized on the
fingerboard as well."

 The 10 string double violin has two bodies that

share the same neck. It has, obviously, 10 strings and
is bowed like a regular violin. The 10 stringed double
violin was created by Jon Rose.
 Stroh Violin
1904-1942

"The rich resonant sound...of several violins playing at the same time"
To overcome the lack of carrying power of string instruments, John M.A.
Stroh introduced new "violins" like this one in England in the early 1900s.
Stroh replaced the violin's usual wooden body with a metal resonator to
produce a louder, more penetrating sound. The aluminum horn at the end of
the fingerboard directed this sound either into the recording horn or into the
ear of the singer. The performer placed the smaller aluminum horn at his or her
ear in order to hear what was being played more distinctly. In 1986,
Washington, DC-resident Jeffery R.D. Crockett donated to the Smithsonian
the Stroh violin shown here. "My mother purchased this Stroh violin," he
wrote in his October 2, 1986, letter of donation, "in the 1930s in the town of
Gravesend, Kent County, England. She used it when playing in a small local
orchestra." Mr. Crockett continued, "I give this violin to the Smithsonian
Institution," then adds--apparently unwittingly--"with no strings attached."
 Designed by the architectural faculty of Hefey
University of Technology of Huainan in China, this
building — surprisingly not a concert hall — has a
violin-shaped entrance, and an escalator leading
visitors into the "grand piano" of the bulk of the
building. Made of black and transparent glass, piano
and violin have been built to a scale of 50:1. Inside,
disappointingly, are displays of "various city plans and
development prospects in an effort to draw interest
into the recently developed area." Gushes the guide:
"Tourists can admire the king and queen of musical
instruments, which stand proudly in a classic contrast
of black and white, rising up and praising the city in
all over the world. This landmark leads you to a
dizzying musical world." Which is where?
Landfill Philharmonic
Cateura, Paraguay is a town essentially built on top of a
landfill. Garbage collectors browse the trash for sellable
goods, and children are often at risk of getting involved with
drugs and gangs. When music teacher Fabio set up a music
program for the kids of Cateura, they soon have more
students than they have instruments. That changed when
Szaran and Fabio were brought something they had never
seen before: a violin made out of garbage. Today, there’s an
entire orchestra of assembled instruments, now called The
Recycled Orchestra. Our film shows how trash and recycled
materials can be transformed into beautiful sounding musical
instruments, but more importantly, it brings witness to the
transformation of precious human beings.
 Triple
WOW!!!

Artist and instrument maker Alex Sobolev built three violins and joined them
together to create the “Triolin.” The instrument is quite striking but rather
impractical—because the violins are joined at the base, musicians must play them
upside down, more like a cello. In addition to making the occasional Frankenstein
instrument, Sobolev is working on an intriguing electric violin that will be able to
mimic the sounds of rare and antique violins.
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