Range A violin can play from the G below middle C, known as G3, up to a high E two octaves above its highest string, known as E7. Each of the four strings is tuned a fifth apart, making up the notes G ...

Just after the eerie opening (with some of the strings muted, the rest shivering on the bridges of their instruments) the orchestral violins, violas and cellos have to ‘thrum’ a tremolo with ...