viola
The frog is not actually on the viola itself, but on the bow. The frog is the black thing under the rod on the end you hold.
You pluck it.
put the bow on the neck and pull.
-- If you tie the viola to the end of a rope, then wiggle the viola and send wavesdown the rope to the other end, those are transverse waves.-- If you pluck or bow the viola strings, then the strings themselves vibrate withtransverse waves.-- However, the sound waves that proceed from the viola to the ear of the delightedconcertgoer are longitudinal ones.
viola
five
the violin, the viola; the cello, and the fiddle are all played with a bow.
The frog is not actually on the viola itself, but on the bow. The frog is the black thing under the rod on the end you hold.
Guitar(no bow) and on the shoulder
You pluck it.
put the bow on the neck and pull.
The viola is held on your left shoulder the bow is used with the right hand. If you wish to pluck you also use your right hand. Also you may hold the viola similar to a banjo and plucked.
The violin and viola rests on the shoulder with the chin resting on it. You use a bow on all of these instruments.
A viola is a string instrument of the violin family. It is larger than a violin but smaller than a cello, and like the violin and cello it is played with a bow.
The viola is held on the left arm and the bow is held in the right hand. You may also pluck with your right hand. Lastly, you may pluck the viola holding it like a banjo.
Because the viola does, itself, have strings. The viola is played with a bow as is a violin. The viola is the slightly larger counterpart to the violin and, because comparatively few people are learning the viola now, there is an increasing demand for viola players. It is, for example, comparatively easy for viola players to get scholarships to many universities as compared with those who play other instruments because viola players are dwindling as a whole.