Violin Family
Gibson ventured into the manufacture of violin-family instruments from 1939 until 1942. Supplies of commercial violins from Germany and Japan were unavailable due to the war, giving American manufacturers a period of protection from overseas competition
- Violins
- Model V-15
- Model V-35
- Violas
- Cellos
- Model G-110
- Basses
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Famous quotes containing the words violin and/or family:
“The mastery of one’s phonemes may be compared to the violinist’s mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor’s renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.”
—W.V. Quine (b. 1908)
“The family: I believe more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other—I mean the attempt to prolong family connection unduly, and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)