There was a time when electric violins were strictly for rich and famous professionals. That time has gone the way of the dodo and now the variety and price ranges are broader. Certainly they come in nearly any color you can imagine. The cost is not much lower now, but it is at least within sight of someone with less than a fortune.

Once considered a toy, just like personal computers, now the electrified stringed instrument is used more often. It travels well, amplifies for outdoor venues and the sound can be tweaked with just like the electric guitar.

The shapes of these violins might be similar to the wooden variety or something much more surreal. Because they can be formed from Lucite and high tech composites, they are more akin to modern sculpture than musical instruments.

Not only the shape has changed. The electrified stringed instrument has become an equal in the quartet and small groups that play at music festivals. To be heard above the banjo and saxophone is now possible. This is excitement indeed. Mixing the sound of an ensemble is now far easier.

But more than professionals can benefit from this move toward electrical innovation. What the keyboard did for the parent suffering through the first years of piano lessons can be had with these new stringed fiddles and cellos. Silence. Just plug the output into the headphones and the budding virtuoso can hear every note and you can hear none. A blessing indeed.

Maybe not everyone is equally ready to abandon the acoustic and head for the amplifier, but the positives are adding up on a daily basis. Just the fact that composites are more durable is a huge plus.

And while the cost and perhaps lack of snob appeal are certainly drawbacks, the rest of us can see the day that junior heads toward the amplifier to practice the electric violin instead of the electric guitar.

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