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Realease your Crazyness!!!!
Since when? I never knew this. I wonder what my state song is...
I'm so crazy I make insane people look normal! LOL
Help me please somebody
I don't have any classes with any of my friends...or anyone that I know of...they split us all up...everyone that I've had classes with for the last two years...how could they do this to us?
Nadia *I'm full of awesomesauce*~Live your life to the fullest...HAVE FUN! EAT CHOCOLATE! BE AWESOME!~Awesomesauce Cakes~ wrote: "Since when? I never knew this. I wonder what my state song is..."Google it.
This is my craziness.
Only part of it.
BLA HA HA!!!!
Maria wrote: "Oh wow, that's so unfair!!!!"I know, right? Hey, a question, which in no way is meant to b offensive, are all Canadians stuck up and think Americans are stupid? Because one of my aunt's nephews has been staying with us and he won't shut up about how Canada is better than America...he and my sister keep going at it.
Allison wrote: "Nadia *I'm full of awesomesauce*~Live your life to the fullest...HAVE FUN! EAT CHOCOLATE! BE AWESOME!~Awesomesauce Cakes~ wrote: "Since when? I never knew this. I wonder what my state song is..."..."
You're right, we do, I should probably listen to it....
I am sane. So that means you're not.
You. Are. Not. Sane.
TheCleverOne wrote: "BUT YOU ARE"Omgosh I LOVE your profile pic!!!!! It's so pretty:)
HEY, I TRIED NORMAL AND I DIDN'T LIKE IT.
Allison wrote: "TheCleverOne wrote: "BUT YOU ARE"
Omgosh I LOVE your profile pic!!!!! It's so pretty:)"
Thanx
Omgosh I LOVE your profile pic!!!!! It's so pretty:)"
Thanx
Nadia *I'm full of awesomesauce*~♥Love yourself♥~☼Don't take things for granted☼~♫Value those around you♫~♠Live with No Regrets♠~ wrote: "Maria wrote: "Oh wow, that's so unfair!!!!"
I know, right? Hey, a question, which in no way is meant to b offensive, are all Canadians stuck up and think Americans are stupid? Because one of my au..."
Well, Canada IS better. *flips hair*
JK lol. It's interesting because some Canadians think the same thing of Americans - that Americans know next to nothing about Canada, that they only think of Canadians in stereotypes, that they're rude and think that America is a way better country, etc. Of course, that's not true about all Americans, just like not all Canadians conform to the stereotypes of 'polite' and 'nice' and all that. It sounds like your aunt's nephew needs to get his head straight and stop being obnoxious. In direct answer to your question, no. :)
I know, right? Hey, a question, which in no way is meant to b offensive, are all Canadians stuck up and think Americans are stupid? Because one of my au..."
Well, Canada IS better. *flips hair*
JK lol. It's interesting because some Canadians think the same thing of Americans - that Americans know next to nothing about Canada, that they only think of Canadians in stereotypes, that they're rude and think that America is a way better country, etc. Of course, that's not true about all Americans, just like not all Canadians conform to the stereotypes of 'polite' and 'nice' and all that. It sounds like your aunt's nephew needs to get his head straight and stop being obnoxious. In direct answer to your question, no. :)
So true, Maria. Canadians know more about America. People keep asking me if it's cold in Canada, and if we live in Igloos. They should have studies Canadian History in school.
Canadians are known for our hockey, cold weather, and tea. But we're much more than that.
Canadians are known for our hockey, cold weather, and tea. But we're much more than that.
I thank Wikipedia for this article.The violin, also known as a fiddle, is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola, the cello and the double bass.
Someone who plays the violin is called a violinist or a fiddler. The violinist produces sound by drawing a bow across one or more strings (which may be stopped by the fingers of the other hand to produce a full range of pitches), by plucking the strings (with either hand), or by a variety of other techniques. The violin is played by musicians in a wide variety of musical genres, including Baroque music, classical, jazz, folk music, rock and roll, and soft rock. The violin has come to be played in many non-Western music cultures all over the world.
The violin is sometimes informally called a fiddle, regardless of the type of music played on it. The word violin comes from the Medieval Latin word vitula, meaning stringed instrument;[1] this word is also believed to be the source of the Germanic "fiddle".[2] The violin, while it has ancient origins, acquired most of its modern characteristics in 16th-century Italy, with some further modifications occurring in the 18th and 19th centuries. Violinists and collectors particularly prize the instruments made by the Gasparo da Salò, Giovanni Paolo Maggini, Stradivari, Guarneri and Amati families from the 16th to the 18th century in Brescia and Cremona and by Jacob Stainer in Austria. According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or equal it, though this belief is disputed.[3][4] Great numbers of instruments have come from the hands of "lesser" makers, as well as still greater numbers of mass-produced commercial "trade violins" coming from cottage industries in places such as Saxony, Bohemia, and Mirecourt. Many of these trade instruments were formerly sold by Sears, Roebuck and Co. and other mass merchandisers.
A person who makes or repairs violins is called a luthier. The parts of a violin are usually made from different types of wood (although electric violins may not be made of wood at all, since their sound may not be dependent on specific acoustic characteristics of the instrument's construction), and it is usually strung with gut, Perlon or other synthetic, or steel strings.
The earliest stringed instruments were mostly plucked (e.g. the Greek lyre). Bowed instruments may have originated in the equestrian cultures of Central Asia, an example being the Tanbur originated in modern-day Uzbekistan or Kobyz (Kazakh: қобыз) (kyl-kobyz) - an ancient Turkic, Kazakh string instrument or Mongolian instrument Morin huur:
Turkic and Mongolian horsemen from Inner Asia were probably the world’s earliest fiddlers. Their two-stringed upright fiddles were strung with horsehair strings, played with horsehair bows, and often feature a carved horse’s head at the end of the neck. The violins, violas, and cellos we play today, and whose bows are still strung with horsehair, are a legacy of the nomads.[5]
It is believed that these instruments eventually spread to China, India, the Byzantine Empire and the Middle East, where they developed into instruments such as the erhu in China, the rebab in the Middle East, the lyra in the Byzantine Empire and the esraj in India. The violin in its present form emerged in early 16th-Century Northern Italy, perhaps from the popular medieval European vielle, also called a fidel or viuola, which was itself derived from the aforementioned Byzantine lyra.
The modern European violin evolved from various bowed stringed instruments from the Middle East[6] and the Byzantine Empire.[7][8] It is most likely that the first makers of violins borrowed from three types of current instruments: the rebec, in use since the 10th century (itself derived from the Byzantine lyra[9] and the Arabic rebab), the Renaissance fiddle, and the lira da braccio[10] (both derived[7] from the Byzantine lira). One of the earliest explicit descriptions of the instrument, including its tuning, was in the Epitome musical by Jambe de Fer, published in Lyon in 1556.[11] By this time, the violin had already begun to spread throughout Europe.
The oldest documented violin to have four strings, like the modern violin, is supposed to have been constructed in 1555 by Andrea Amati, but the date is unknown (Other violins, documented significantly earlier, only had three strings and were called violetta). Venice gave an important contribution to the birth of the violin that was known locally as the "lira," probably derived from the name of the Byzantine upright bowed instrument. This was most likely derived from the name of the ancient Greek instrument, although that was plucked rather than bowed. In the 1510s (some fifty years before the flourishing activity of Andrea Amati) in Venice seven "lireri" or makers of bowed instruments including proto-violins were present.[12] The violin immediately became very popular, both among street musicians and the nobility, illustrated by the fact that the French king Charles IX ordered Amati to construct 24 violins for him in 1560.[13] One of these instruments, now called the Charles IX, is the oldest surviving violin. The finest Renaissance carved and decorated violin in the world is the Gasparo da Salò (1574 c.) owned by Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria and later, from 1841, by the Norwegian virtuoso Ole Bull, who used it for forty years and thousands of concerts, for his very powerful and beautiful tone, similar to those of a Guarneri. It is now in the Vestlandske Kustindustrimuseum in Bergen (Norway). "The Messiah" or "Le Messie" (also known as the "Salabue") made by Antonio Stradivari in 1716 remains pristine. It is now located in the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford.[14]
Significant changes occurred in the construction of the violin in the 18th century, particularly in the length and angle of the neck, as well as a heavier bass bar. The majority of old instruments have undergone these modifications, and hence are in a significantly different state than when they left the hands of their makers, doubtless with differences in sound and response.[16] But these instruments in their present condition set the standard for perfection in violin craftsmanship and sound, and violin makers all over the world try to come as close to this ideal as possible.
To this day, instruments from the so-called Golden Age of violin making, especially those made by Stradivari, Guarneri del Gesù and Montagnana are the most sought-after instruments by both collectors and performers. The current record amount paid for a Stradivari violin is £9.8 million (US$15.9 million), when the instrument known as the Lady Blunt was sold by Tarisio Auctions in an online auction on June 20, 2011.[17]
A violin generally consists of a spruce top (the soundboard, also known as the top plate, table, or belly), maple ribs and back, two endblocks, a neck, a bridge, a soundpost, four strings, and various fittings, optionally including a chinrest, which may attach directly over, or to the left of, the tailpiece. A distinctive feature of a violin body is its hourglass-like shape and the arching of its top and back. The hourglass shape comprises two upper bouts, two lower bouts, and two concave C-bouts at the waist, providing clearance for the bow.
The voice of a violin depends on its shape, the wood it is made from, the graduation (the thickness profile) of both the top and back, and the varnish that coats its outside surface. The varnish and especially the wood continue to improve with age, making the fixed supply of old violins much sought-after.
The very great majority of glued joints in the instrument use animal hide glue for a number of reasons: it is capable of making a thinner joint than most other glues, it is reversible (brittle enough to crack with carefully applied force, and removable with warm water) when disassembly is needed, and since fresh hide glue sticks to old hide glue, more original wood can be preserved when repairing a joint. (More modern glues must be cleaned off entirely for the new joint to be sound, which generally involves scraping off some wood along with the old glue.) Weaker, diluted glue is usually used to fasten the top to the ribs, and the nut to the fingerboard, since common repairs involve removing these parts.
The purfling running around the edge of the spruce top provides some protection against cracks originating at the edge. It also allows the top to flex more independently of the rib structure. Painted-on faux purfling on the top is usually a sign of an inferior instrument. The back and ribs are typically made of maple, most often with a matching striped figure, referred to as flame, fiddleback, or tiger stripe.
The neck is usually maple with a flamed figure compatible with that of the ribs and back. It carries the fingerboard, typically made of ebony, but often some other wood stained or painted black. Ebony is the preferred material because of its hardness, beauty, and superior resistance to wear. Fingerboards are dressed to a particular transverse curve, and have a small lengthwise "scoop," or concavity, slightly more pronounced on the lower strings, especially when meant for gut or synthetic strings.
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Allison wrote: "I thank Wikipedia for this article.
The violin, also known as a fiddle, is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the..."
Wow that's awesome! :D (didn't read the whole thing though, it was really long haha)
The violin, also known as a fiddle, is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the..."
Wow that's awesome! :D (didn't read the whole thing though, it was really long haha)
Who knows, but he was acting really mean to Abibliophobiac, so I'm not gonna miss him.
What if I've met someone from GR in real life but didn't know it???
Everyone, if you ever see me, you can recognize me by the fact that I'm an invisible ninja
......:)Attention everybody!!! I have an announcement to make and it will change your life! This is extremely important so turn your brain on. If you don't listen, then your life won't change for the better and you'll starve and the world will explode in a fiery inferno!! So LISTEN.
I ate a leaf today.
It tasted kinda like blood.
...are you sure the leaf didn't just have blood on it? :D
What kind of leaf was it? The public wants to know!
They should make edible school supplies! Candy flavored notebooks, ERASERS MADE OF CHEESE! I'd eat my erasers...
1) I THINK IT WAS MAPLE2) NO IT DID NOT HAVE BLOOD ON IT
3) EDIBLE SCHOOL SUPPLIES WOULD BE AMAZING
and 4) I LOVE ALL CAPS.
Abibliophobiac;d wrote: "Extremely random questions that I should ask google or bing, but I shall ask the crazy members of this group instead!-When was the gun invented?
Does Sherlock holmes have a middle name?
Is it t..."
Actually, Sherlock's middle name IS Sherlock. His full name is William Sherlock Scott Holmes. Well, according to the show anyways. :p
Actually, the makers of the show took it from another source, William S. Baring-Gould's 'biography' of Sherlock Holmes.
I wonder if there's anyone out there who knows all of the state songs o.O