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Question: Does a violin have 70 peices!? Can you name and locate all the 70 peices!?
My nefew thinks that a 70 peice violin does have 70 pecies, i need proof and location
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The modern violin consists of about seventy parts!. Parts include the belly, the back, the ribs, inside blocks, inside lining, bass bar, purfling, finger board, neck, scroll, nut, lower nut, tailpiece, loop, end button, pegs, strings, bridge, and the sound post!. The body of the violin is a hollow box which measures about 35!.5 cm in length!. The back, the neck, the ribs and the bridge are usually made of maple!. The belly, linings, and the soundpost are usually made of spruce!.

many of the parts like the ribs are numerous!.
Off hand I count a minimum of 12 ribs!.
Sometimes the top and back are in 1, 2, or 3 pieces!. etc!.

also look at
http://www!.madehow!.com/Volume-2/Violin!.h!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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A "70-piece violin SECTION" would be a group or section of an orchestra with 70 violinists in it!.

But if you look at a violin, I think you'd see that a single instrument doesn't have 70 different parts to it!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

According to this site, there are 17 pieces

http://www2!.woodcraft!.com/PDF/5342!.pdfWww@QuestionHome@Com