Violin

The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in

The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello.

A violin is sometimes informally called a fiddle, no matter what kind of music is played on it. The words "violin" and "fiddle" come from the Middle Latin word vitula, meaning "stringed instrument," but "violin" came through the Romance languages, meaning small viola, and "fiddle" through Germanic languages.