Just saw in the trades today, QRS's new "Virtuoso Violin". It's a real violin
with a bow balanced on top, the whole supported above a rectangular box
somewhat larger than the violin. Apparently (the description's not too clear)
it actually plays acoustically via the bow and is MIDI controlled. It has no
"fingers" like the Violano, but plays only one string, "driving it at
different frequencies". It can play with a piano using the QRS player system.
It will be demonstrated at the NAMM music trade show in Anaheim this month.
It was devised by musician Fred Paroutaud and the late Dr. Thomas Paine, NASA
administrator during Apollo and a former Northrop President.

Philip Jamison