What S The Difference Between A Violin And A Viola

Coming to the size the violin comes with a smaller frame than the viola.

Violas are wider than the violin. There is also difference in the bow used. Violins come in nine different sizes and violas come in four sizes. The viola size is the first difference between violin and viola that you can notice easily i mean if you have the two instruments in front of you to compare.

The overall pitch of a viola will generally sound lower and a bit more mellow than a violin. Here s awesome violist jennifer stumm demonstrating a lovely mellow sound in rebecca clarke s viola sonata. While the violins come with a standard length of 35 5 cm the violas may come with lengths ranging from 38 to 48 cm. The average length of a violin s body is around fourteen inches while the length of the viola s body ranges from fifteen to eighteen inches.

The viola body length generally goes from 40 cm 15 in to 42 43 cm 16 5 17 in and it is larger accordingly while the violin body is about 35 cm 13 in.