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It sounds quite melodic.

I bought a Viper in 2003 when I graduated high school: a six-string fretted blue burl laminate with silver hardware. Due to a problem during the finishing process the silver hardware wouldn't fit so they upgraded me to gold hardware. Over the years I've had the instrument serviced, fixed, and modified, and every single time I've spoken to Mark on the phone, despite me being an amateur nobody, he's remembered me and my instrument down to the most minute details. Truly a class act.

He is very inventive and actually makes a lot of sense. The electric violin offers options that the acoustic one cannot.

LOL that thing is a voilin sounding object LOL.That is OK but a violin it is not. Might as well graft it to your neck bones... LOL. Fretted... even funnier. Ah you are a comedian LOL

It's very versatile, it can play everything from Rock, to Heavy Metal, and even Classical Music.

4:27 So the Bow has stayed as is for the last 400 or 500 years. Electric Violins are commonly played w/ Regular Violin Bows.

4:23 So it's in Traditional Tuning but extended downwards.

Holy shut this guy can play

I have to call this the “Versoline” even the electric versoline is more versatile than the accustic version since the electric version also sounds like an electric guitar let alone an acoustic orchestra!!

I must own one🤤 I've only played on traditional violins but electric has always intrigued me.

Greetings from Ukraine. Thanks a lot! I've once watched this video and couldn't find it... But in a miraculous way it has happened now. Thanks a lot for such a beautiful sounding instrument and for such a great performance.

this is amazing, really want to play that!!!

When I was young and a true child, in the 50's and early 60's my babysitters went to Julliard on full scholarships, Leslie was a pianist and her twin sister Cathy was a violinist. Leslie taught me piano for awhile until I lost interest.

Impressionante 😮

He came to our daughter's school back in the mid 2000s where he worked with them and had a show for the school. He was super nice. I had the opportunity to talk with him away from the students and he was just a normal down to Earth guy.

Dude has a really narrow-minded view of math and the sciences if he thinks there's no inspiration and beauty and emotion in them. We can explain the ideas we get, but we are just as mystified as any composer as to where the ideas come from. He has the opinions about math of someone who can't do it. I suspect that athletes would find his opinions of sports just as wrong. He is a brilliant MUSICIAN, but ifyou want to know about the mystery and inspiration and misty0eyed beauty of math or the sciences, ask a scientist. It always surprises me how many scientists are also artists and musicians, and how FEW artists and musicians "get" science and what it means.

This dude and Zoe Keating are the apex of musical disruption. A brilliant, brilliant musician -- there's a video of him up on YT messing with the Bach double violin concerto that is one of the best things I've ever heard in my life. Whole generations of upcoming rock guitarists probably wish he'd never been born, because he opened the door to thousands of classically trained violinists who could shred like crazy people and who raised the bar for what could be done in a rock band!

It's a shame you could not try a 'True Temperament' fretted 7 string electric violin, as that might solve both problems at a stroke.

vapor ware

i am in love!

Mark wood is so over looked, cool dude

I swear this man has made me become a fan of violin-like instruments OwO And his instruments as well. Dang, having the whole Violin-Viola-Cello-Bass in a single package, with things like Distortion.... This is on a whole new level or league for me XD

How does it work with pythagorean tuning, is It possible

"I can play traditional violin on this" *plays a cello prelude*

How cool is that....

Hi, great show, thank you. Quick question, is Mark Wood the violinist that tunes the 7 string violins to the same frequency as the 7 chakra’s?🙏🏽🕊️

Does it djent?

Same Mark Wood who did Intro'-Outro for "Reflections on Silver Screen" with Richard Brown and AMC????? What is that piece called?

Piece of plastic? Nah son piece of copper

Oh shit I need one of this

That’s actually insane that Mark has violin viola cello and bass all on one instrument and played with the same bow!

Inside:Cool Music Magazine I'm a Reed Organ player so the 7 string Fretted Viper would go well with it as its range is the same.

Wood violins are kind of spendy IMHO. I own a NS 5 string that cost me around $650 and it sounds great. To restring a 7 string violin costs a small fortune.

Which kind of pedal and effect is he using in the distortion part?

Hi Jake can you please remove my music from your site, cheers Jake

What is the model of violin?

bro only knows spicatto and legato 🤣 need practice on the partita, cool echo effect tho!

maybe just get a jack hammer adn torture cats with it

It looks like a lot of fun to play. I'm an amateur occasional violist (I find the violin hard to play because of the size). I played for most of the 1990's, then a job change interfered with playing in community orchestras, and restarted around the end of 2020 (inspired by a rock band I had just discovered -- when they played in Boston last year, I told them, and they thought it was neat). Unfortunately, that petered out after about a year. It's partly a matter of wanting other repertoire to play, partly the stress it puts on my neck and shoulder (I have a fairly long neck and haven't had a lot of luck finding a shoulder rest that gives the right kind of support). That obviously has undesirable downstream effects on the my hand. The Viper looks like it avoids that issue altogether by means of that chest strap. It also looks -- it's hard to judge for certain -- like the scale length is considerably longer than on a 4/4 violin, which would be an advantage for me. Comments?

Were the he** do you get one of these with the disorstion .

What a self actualized individual. Thank you for this video. It made my night!

I remember this man came to my middle school

From Bach to Eruption on one instrument. This man is amazing!

On this interview alone, I'm in, sub'd.

No doubt - this violin is propperly comfortable. Maybe the MOST comfortable out there...., but all the effects - why can't OTHER el-violins do SAME things ❓❓- The effect boxes are THE SAME for all of them......

A four string version available "mia shows off in 1 of her videos👍

Mark is a great guy! When I went to Berklee in 2006 I met him and he gave me an audition/opportunity to audition for the Trans Siberian Orchestra. It was a memorable time for me! Later on I received a call from TSO & Paul and the gang gave me a chance! I didn't get the gig but it was an exciting time.

Honestly the shape and the amount of strings is fine, but I'm not a huge fan of the frets

I have no idea how to play a violin and would sound like I was killing a cat but THAT IS COOL!!!!

Music of mad players. No culture. Rubbish.