Yamaha Electronic Violins
Yamaha are a Japanese company which make everything from violins to motorbikes. They have been making instruments for 50 years. Yamaha are most known for their pianos which are made in Japan and exported all over the world. They also make acoustic violins which are starting to be really favoured by professional musicians.
Yamaha’s electric violins look like you would expect an electric violin to. Their bodies are mostly cut away and areas for plugging in amplifiers and pickups.
Yamaha make their violins, and especially their electric violins, with the performer and the needs of the performer in mind.
EV – 205
The EV – 205 is described by Yamaha as giving a ‘big, expressive sound’ which will hold its own in a band but still has the characteristics that an acoustic violin has. It can still make that delicate sound of an acoustic. One of the great features about electric violins is that they can be used as an acoustic as well, they won’t produce as good a sound but it means that they can be used for practising on.
One of the most defining features of the EV-205 is that it has the option to add a 5th string, a C which is a 5th beneath the G string which is traditionally the lowest string on a violin. Many contempory violinists use violins with an extra string so that it gives them extra range and a lower range. The E string is the highest string on the violin but obviously higher notes can be played. By adding an extra string to the violin, it means notes below a G can be played, this gives the violin the range of a vviola and more. The 5 string model also has a wider neck and wider bridge in order to accommodate the extra string.
EV – 204
This electric violin has 4 strings so in that sense it is more traditional than the EV-205. It comes in three colours, one of which is a natural wood colour. The EV-204 has the left quarter cut away. And doesn’t have any noticeable buttons or dials on its body. The weight of the EV-204 is 717 grams including batteries which makes it quite heavy for a violin. The entire violin body is made of maple and the fingerboard is made of ebony. Both of these woods are hard woods which means that they’re hardwearing above all. Soft woods often ‘bend’ and warp in humid weathers but hard woods do this a lot less.
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