i play the violin.
[{"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": "Do you play the violin? Also, the violin is also known as a fiddle."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I don't. The only string instruments I have ever tried are guitar and ukulele."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I wish I learned how to play the guitar The only thing I ever learned to play was a mandolin."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Is that played with a pick or strummed with the fingers?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It is strummed with the fingers. It has four sets of double metal strings."}, {"role": "user", "content": "What's the effect on the sound of the double strings?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "THey are strung in unison to a completion of perfect fifths."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Interesting. Is that like a harp? Are they tuned in fifths?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "They are tuned in fifths so one might compare it to a harp. That could be debated."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I guess Irish harps are tuned differently. I don't know much about those."}]