Corporate Blog-Aileen Music

Peg: It is a piece of hard phellem with cone-shaped. Insert it into the cone-shaped hole fixed on the side of the peg-box. Thread the strings through the peg and tighten them so that the violin has the needed tension.

Peg-box: It is placed in the hollow part of the neck so that the four strings can go across it.

Nut: It is a piece of black wood which is placed between the peg-box and the fingerboard. There are four ditches which are used to maintain the position of the strings.

Fingerboard: It is a long piece of black wood with radian. It is affixed to the neck providing the surface where the player can press the strings.

Bridge: It is a piece of maple wood chip with fixed shape. Standing on the panel, it supports the strings with precise height. Its two feet are the parts which touch the panel.

Tailpiece: It is a hard piece of wood and the strings are tied with it. It can keep the string stretched.

End button: It is a cone wooden pillar which was settled on the center of the ribs at the bottom of the violin, usually is made of black wood or mahogany, and with the function of hooking string tail rope of the tailpiece.

“F” holes: It is also called sound hole. There is a f-shaped cut on both sides of the top of the violin.

String adjuster: It is composed of peg, hook body, fastening screws and adjustment screws, and, by wresting the adjustment screws to achieve the destination of fine-tuning the tension of the strings.

Chinrest: It is a fitting settled on the left bottom of the top, fastened through the Chinrest screws. And, it helps the player to grip the violin tightly.