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Uploaded by on Nov 21, 2006

Antonio Pontarelli performs All Along The Watchtower on his 7-string Viper violin!

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  • Antonio Pontarelli is the real deal!

  • That's not true.  Frets have been an early element of the violin family with the violin precursors such as versions of the Rebab and Rebec.

  • You're working with a very american classification. The fact of the matter is the the violin is classified on a modern stance by these:

    Range

    Bowed Instrument

    Also, range in the modern eyes is usually something that is not a defining characteristic. The classification system used international is called Hornbostel-Sachs which has nothing to do with specific names of instruments but there true classification. Also the violin came out of a larger family including the viol and viola-de-gamba.

  • omg antonio pontarelli is so awesome!! he is so talented

  • How am I not being nice?

  • Now your not being nice, But because I want to understand from such a pro builder as yourself.... If I get a 5 string Viper (you can get them between 4 and 7 strings), and I tune it in 5ths (which most do) to the same harmonics as the Violin and Viola (Viola's C,Shared G,Shared D,Shared A,Violins E) and I don't get the frets, wouldn't you classify it as an electric violin?

  • No, frets aren't the ONLY classifier. The tuning is another classifier. Just because its shaped like a violin, which this isn't, and you use a bow doesn't mean its a violin.

  • Not to step into it, but frets are not the main classifier. I play a 16.5" Viola and Woods **violins** is having a custom 6 string made for me. Their are string instruments that have fret's on the fingerboard. Such as the Viol.

    Personally I don't care what people call it. I only hope they enjoy what we can do with it.

  • Being stagnant and stating a fact that this is not a violin, have nothing to do with one another. You don't have a clue what you are even talking about. How bout you shut your fat face.

  • You speak of staying stagnant and you are too narrow minded to accept an unconventional experimental design for a violin? Hypocrite.

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