Violectra

The Violectra is a musical instrument from the family of string instruments.

" Violectra " is the name for an electric violin with four strings. Your range is an octave below a normal violin, viola and cello ie between.

The Violectra was developed in the early 1960s by the U.S. firm Barcus -Berry. Jean -Luc Ponty was one of the first jazz violinist who has used them, as they played Michał Urbaniak and electronic Bacsik. The oldest known recording with a Violectra comes from its co-developer John Berry on a build for demonstration purposes in 1963 album. Probably the Violectra was already used by some studio musicians in Los Angeles, before the jazz musicians took over the monopoly.

• String instrument
• Chordophone
• Elektrophon