Are electric violins built any different than acoustic ones?
Answer Hi Chris! As far as the strings, notes, size, and how the instrument is played, there is no difference between electric and acoustic violins. However, they do differ in the way they are constructed. Electric violins contain an electronic system for producing sound. When the term “electric violin” is used, it means that the instrument was built specifically to be plugged into some kind of electric, sound-producing system. The instrument is equipped with pickups that use electricity to convert the string vibrations into an electrical current, which come out through an amplifier or speaker. Without being plugged in, the instrument remains silent, thus the proper term for them is “silent electric”. Silent electric violins are also those whose electronic parts are within the instrument’s body. An acoustic violin is constructed using “Helmholtz resonance” principles. The top of the violin is actually a curved “sounding board”. The strings are held up by the bridge. When the strings ar
