Violinist Aldo Cicchini and members of his string trio OP3 used a floor scraping chair to play the high notes in "Bohemian ...

Older versions of the instrument only had three strings, and were known as 'violetta'. Range A violin can play from the G below middle C, known as G3, up to a high E two octaves above its highest ...

The double bass is the only modern bowed string instrument that is tuned in fourths ... [5] Before the 20th century many double basses had only three strings, in contrast to the five to six strings ...