Differences And Similarities Between The Violin And The Viola

Beethoven was born during the Classical era, so naturally he would learn violin. He was far more advanced in his piano skills, but he did have knowledge on playing the violin and the viola.The violin and the viola have similarities and differences. One of the similarities is how they are positioned: held horizontally (parallel with the floor) and is angled to the left of a straight forward position, placed on your left collar bone (some prefer the soft spot just behind the collar bone), and rest the left side of your jaw on the chin rest, the elbow should be under the center of the violin/viola, and the wrist should be gently rounded against the neck and not pressed up against the neck (Deverich, 2015). Two of the many differences in the violin and the viola is: size and sound (A. 2017, March 13). The viola is longer and wider than a violin. Viola’s have four main sizes: 15,14,13, and 12 (Rohrbacher,2018). Whereas, violins have two times as many sizes: 1/16 (just 9 inches or 23 cm), 1/10, 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 7/8 and …show more content…
Ophthalmologists are trained to perform eye exams, diagnose and treat disease, prescribe medications and perform eye surgery) that were available, so no one really did not know what the exact reason why Beethoven was gradually losing his hearing. Beethoven started to notice buzzing and distortion in his hearing (Ludwig Van Beethoven's Biography,n.d.), and that was around 1796 (26 years after his birth). Two years later,1798, is when the buzzing stopped as well as most of the sound surrounding him. By the time it was 1801, Beethoven had already lost more than half of his hearing. 17 years after that is when Beethoven had gone 100% deaf. The doctor that did the autopsy on Beethoven, Dr. Wagner, stated “... The ear cartilage is of a huge dimension and an irregular form. The scaphoïde dimple, and above all the auricle, were vast