Veena vs Violin - What's the difference?
veena | violin |
A plucked stringed instrument used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music.
*1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 339:
*:When he wanted to test any of the principles he was enunciating or elucidating, he went over to the veena which sits in a glass case now and played for hours and substantially extended the vocabulary and scope of the instrument.
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(musical instruments) A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string. Pitch is set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers.
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(music) A violinist.
As nouns the difference between veena and violin
is that veena is {{cx|musical instrument|lang=en}} A plucked stringed instrument used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music while violin is a musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string. Pitch is set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers.veena
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(wikipedia veena)Alternative forms
*vinaNoun
(en noun)violin
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(wikipedia violin)Noun
(en noun)- The first violin often plays the lead melody lines in a string quartet.