I just wondered if everyone liked the violin because everyone i talk to does! i think it's a bit unfair on the other strings!

I prefer the lower 'voices' of the viola and cello personally. I find the violin too high.

Hi!

I love playing the viola. I've been playing it for about 4 years.

Years ago, in school, I used to play the violin in the school orchestra and when the parts 'split' I always preferred the lower part. I always prefered playing on the G string and D string, and hated the E string!

So in later years I realised that I should be playing the viola, so I switched. I love having a C string!

i like the violin when played well. but i do like the cello!!

Nat

I like them all.........as long as they're played well- no scratching!
If I had to pick one, maybe cello

I have to say that strings aren't my favourite instruments but I do love to hear a cello. There's something very special about them (when played well of course!)

i play the violin. but i think it would be lovely to learn the viola! you'd have to get used to the alto clef. grade 5 theory comes in handy! the cello is really rich in sound.
i wonder what the double bass would be like? having to cope with such a big instrument. and imagine carrying it around? and what about shifting? there are other string instruments i'm interested in, guitar, harp? i'd like to try some baroque stringed instruments. the bows are different and the instruments use gut strings!

Hi...

I prefer woodwind instruments ...flute and clarinet are my favourite...but if i had to pick a favourite string instrument it would be the violin...played well....

Luv Teabag

xxx

what do u play teabag?

Harpsichord!

HArp.... but I also like Cello

i play the cello as well as sing but my favourite string instrument is the double bass i would play it i hav always wanted to but it won't fit in mums car so i can't really my friend in my music class play the double bass and is doing grade 8 this year it's sounds great when she plays i love the deep full sound even though it is not a main intrument in the schools orchestra it's gre8

I have to say that i really love the double bass (when it's played well: i started at christmas and am taking G5 in summer - so i'm not that brilliant yet) it's got such a rich and full sound, as well as the comedy value!

I do like the violin, but I also love the haunting sounds that can be produced on a cello.

being a bass instrument lover, I'd of course say double bass.

Viola da gamba, lute

I never try string instrument but I like violin due to its' look.

I like the sound of the bass viol because it's as deep as a cello but with frets so that every note rings like an open string.

Cello, so beautiful

who likes harps?

I love harps. And pianos, if they're a stringed instrument

I also enjoy the bass sounf of cello but I have reacently become very aware of how good a violin can sound....I play classical guitar so that must be my favourite I really enjoy listening to classical guitar and orchestra

are harps considered a ''real string instrument''?

Hi jasbeth I like harps

me too im going to buy one some day!

harps are very expensive

lots of people like double basses! that's really cool! i've never really thought about them and im surprised that they're lots of people's favourite string instruments. The poor double basses usually get overlooked!

Although I too love the harp and even used to want one very much, I think my next instrument may well be a violin. I like it quite a lot and it is very beautiful and versitile.

I love the 'cello. I think the violin is too high, and the viola doesn't come across strongly as a soloist instrument.

1. viola
2. cello
3. double bass
4. violin
5. harpsicord
6. harp! ahh sorry not into harps

but then obviously the recorder beats them all!!

congrats another viola fan! yay!
jess

QUOTE (recorderzrule @ Jun 24 2004, 08:33 PM)

1. viola 2. cello 3. double bass 4. violin 5. harpsicord 6. harp! ahh sorry not into harps but then obviously the recorder beats them all!!

Ah..

Am I wrong in thinking that Guitar is a string instrument?


And is harpsichord really a string instrument? I thought it eluded definition.

i think cello is the best...

thanx davidmusic well corrected the guitar is ace, especially electric

I play violin but despite that i still prefer cello. Maybe when I get a bit older and have some money I'll buy myself a cello!

Violin is the best string instrument, closely followed by the cello- i love the sound of the cello

I'm a viola fan, nothing can beat the viola in my opinion. It sounds just right to me, cause I can't stand the E string on the violin, I have to play on it a lot for one of my grade 4 pieces and I always just feel like my ear drums are about to burst, but when I play the viola its never too high and never too low.

QUOTE (isabelsmells @ Jun 25 2004, 07:31 PM)

I can't stand the E string on the violin, I have to play on it a lot for one of my grade 4 pieces and I always just feel like my ear drums are about to burst

I hate playing on the E string on the violin, but it sounds alright when professional musicians are playing and when you use vibrato.

surely harp is the best stringed instrument?

i think harp is actually classified as a string instrument...

hiya!

well my all time favourite srtring instrument is the cello. i really like to hear the deep yet still audibly pleasing sound. i think most people can listen to the cello in sucj things as elgars cello concerto (absolutley amazing, especially myleene klass' version ) but i think that the violin is an aquired sound. if you really wanto to listen to violins with attitude listen to Moulin Rouges Roxanne!!! if you dont like classical violin this is the thing for you!!!! (looks for track on net for you to listen to.............) sorry cant find one!!! but seriously listen to that song it is amazing!

jaime

electric guitar by miles

definitely the cello and the harp...

QUOTE (violingirl @ Apr 18 2004, 05:38 PM)

i play the violin. but i think it would be lovely to learn the viola! you'd have to get used to the alto clef. grade 5 theory comes in handy! the cello is really rich in sound.

You need more clefs to play 'cello: bass, tenor, treble (real tenor, that is, C on the fourh line up) and treble down an octave

QUOTE

i wonder what the double bass would be like? having to cope with such a big instrument. and imagine carrying it around? and what about shifting? there are other string instruments i'm interested in, guitar, harp? i'd like to try some baroque stringed instruments. the bows are different and the instruments use gut strings!

I started 'cello about the same time as my (then) 4-year-old son, and got into playing the double bass rather by accident. I already owned an estate car, for transporting a young family and all their paraphernalia, and nowadays its successor has moving the bass as its main task. The great merit of the bass is that no amateur orchestra has enough of them, so you are welcomed into their ensembles by players of much higher technical standards. There are lots of good cellists in amateur circles in much of SE England, so you have to be pretty good to play it in an amateur orchestra.

The 'cello, which I play pretty rarely and not very well now, has the advantage of a marvellous repertoire of string duos, and string and piano trios, quartets and quintets. The bass has to be content with the rather sparser repertoire of mixed chamber music, like the Beethoven Septet, the Schubert Octet (there are other good works for this combination; I particularly like the one by Howard Ferguson), the Spohr Nonet and Octet (I prefer the latter), the Dvorak Wind Serenade, and (best of all) Mozart's Gran Partita in Bb for 13 instruments (you have to insist that he wanted double bass, not contra-bassoon, by showing the pizzicati in the part).

QUOTE (hornplayer @ Sep 10 2004, 03:46 PM)

surely harp is the best stringed instrument?

Chacun à son goût.

Advantages

Polytonal
Glissandi
Some excellent solo and chamber music

Disadvantages

Need to tune frequently (even between pieces)
Stuck in equal temperament (because of the nature of the pedal mechanism)
Lack of penetration in the orchestra requires sympathetic orchestration and balance

i think i said cello somewhere in this topic but i cant remember!

but i just loooooooooooove the harp!really love it!

QUOTE (hgirl @ Apr 18 2004, 10:54 AM)

as long as they're played well- no scratching!

now that is essential!LOL

violin as well...

I love violin, cello & harp....

QUOTE (violingirl @ Apr 18 2004, 05:38 PM)

i wonder what the double bass would be like? having to cope with such a big instrument. and imagine carrying it around? and what about shifting?

I play the double bass and i love it! It's very hard carrying it around but its worth it!! :-D The shifting ok to. But hard to go back up :-D I definatly think the double bass is the best string instrument and the 'cello