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The Violin: Peg Box
The peg box is basically the wodden rectangular frame right below the scroll. The peg box is where the four tuning pegs are wedged and inserted into four tiny squares along the box’s both sides.
The Violin: Tuning Pegs
The tuning pegs are the four pegs (two on the left and two on the right) found just below the scroll. Four pegs for each violin string; the lower strings G and D on the two left pegs, and the A and E on the two right pegs. Each peg has a small needle-hole at […]
The Violin: Scroll
The scroll is found on “head” of the violin. It is the intricately-carved tip which, as its name suggests, is shaped like a scroll. Aside from its most obvious aesthetic-purpose, most orchestra musicians use the scroll to hang their violins on their music stands during long breaks between pieces - like a movement-long break. Luthiers […]