0 a wooden musical instrument with four strings that is held against the neck and played by moving a bow across the strings -- 小提琴
She plays the violin with great expression .
I went to a violin recital today.
However, both forms co-occur in the same session with variants showing the expected reduplicative onset : violin-bin and goldfish-poldfish.
What else can be said of one elderly lady who had played the violin all of her life.
Since she could no longer bend her arm sufficiently, she had exchanged the violin for a mouth-organ.