Range A violin can play from the G below middle C, known as G3, up to a high E two octaves above its highest string, known as E7. Each of the four strings is tuned a fifth apart, making up the notes G ...

The violin was Elgar’s own instrument and his ... Just after the eerie opening (with some of the strings muted, the rest shivering on the bridges of their instruments) the orchestral violins ...