The Sound Of The Violin Should Be In Line With the Aesthetic Taste Of The Audience

09-25-2024

The Sound Of The Violin Should Be In Line With the Aesthetic Taste Of The Audience
　　 From the birth of the violin 300 years ago to the present, from the Baroque era to the modern era, people's concept of the sound of a good instrument has undergone a very big change process. When confronted with an old but modern Stratevari violin, I often wonder how I would have felt if Stradvari himself had been resurrected 270 years after his death and heard such a "ferocious" sound when this "modernized" violin was played. Would he think that the sound was beautiful? Does he think it's a "good harp" sound? In

the Baroque era, violins used bare gut strings, and the strings of the Baroque violin were designed to have much weaker tension than modern violins, and the Baroque bow was used, and the violin produced a sound that was not only less volume than it is now, but also had a very different timbre. We can envision the sound that this type of violin makes when playing: relaxed, sweet, close to the human voice. So now there are some "retro" baroque bands in Europe, using baroque instruments to play baroque music, to find these "lost sounds", the era and culture have a huge impact on people's musical aesthetic taste.