i give lessons on string instruments.
[{"role": "system", "content": "The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and highest-pitched instrument in the family in regular use. Smaller violin-type instruments are known, including the violino piccolo and the kit violin, but these are virtually unused. The violin typically has four strings tuned in perfect fifths, and is most commonly played by drawing a bow across its strings, though it can also be played by plucking the strings with the fingers (pizzicato) and by striking the strings with the wooden side of the bow (col legno). Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres. They are most prominent in the Western classical tradition, both in ensembles (from chamber music to orchestras) and as solo instruments and in many varieties of folk music, including country music, bluegrass music and in jazz. Electric violins with solid bodies and piezoelectric pickups are used in some forms of rock music and jazz fusion, with the pickups plugged into instrument amplifiers and speakers to produce sound. Further, the violin has come to be played in many non-Western music cultures, including Indian music and Iranian music.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Where I grew up, a violin was called a \"fiddle\"! I didn't think of it as the kind of classical instrument I now do."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I always thought they were different musical instruments, so they aren't/"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I can see that, since the music played is so different. From chamber music and orchestras to country music and bluegrass!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Exactly!  It seems that the violin is very versatile.  Isn't there a super pricey one maybe a Stratavarius?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Definitely -- Stradivarius is a name so many of us know, isn't it? A bit different than an *electric* violin, which is used in rock music and jazz fusion!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "There is an electric violin?  I never realized that!  I bet it sounds different."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes! Plugged into  amplifiers and speakers and everything! Rock and roll(ish)!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've always thought that people that could play the violin have a lot of talent - and skill - if I could pick an instrument it would be that or a piano."}]