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": "user", "content": "Have you ever played the violin?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "No, I haven't. Violins are wooden string instruments with a hollow body."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah, I never played either, I only every played the drums, I did not have money to afford other instruments to learn"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Violins are expensive for sure. They are the smallest and highest-pitched instruments played today."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That I did not know, but I did know they were expensive, even now I may not be able to afford them"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "They have electric violins now with pickups, similar to electric guitars. They can be hooked up to amplifiers and speakers."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That is very interesting, I cannot imagine that, I associate electric with guitars, violins seem classier to me"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, violins were prominent in the classical tradition, both as ensembles and as solo instruments."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That may be why I associate the two together, i just know it is a classy type of instrument"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The violin has four strings and is usually played with a bow, but can also be picked with just fingers."}]