Current Usage
A number of musicians, including Tom Waits, Carla Kihlstedt, Thomas Newman, Bat For Lashes, A Hawk and A Hacksaw and Eric Gorfain continue to use the Stroh violin for its distinctive sound. Shakira featured a Strohviol on her 2010/11 The Sun Comes Out World Tour, with multi-instrumentalist Una Palliser playing it on some songs. Pinky Weitzman plays the Stroh violin for various New York experimental ensembles, including her own project (Not Waving But Drowning), as well as Flare, LD & the New Criticism, and as part of the onstage ensemble for Stephin Merritt's My Life as a Fairy Tale.
The Stroh violin is used in folk music of the Bihor region of Romania. Famous practitioners of this music style include fiddler Gheorghe Rada, singers Florica Bradu, Florica Ungur, Florica Duma, Leontin Ciucur, Cornel Borza, Vasile Iova, Maria Haiduc, Viorica Flintasu, and renowned folk ensembles Crisana or Rapsozii Zarandului. In 1920s Buenos Aires, Julio de Caro, a renowned Tango orchestra director and violinist, used it in his live performances, and was called violín-corneta (cornet violin) by the locals.
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