So again this is on a viola so it has a deeper, darker timbre than a violin but here's a scale.

对于中提琴来说,它有着比小提琴更为深沉的音色,现在为你们演奏音阶

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Does the violin play a chord and are the trumpets-- each trumpet playing a chord and the viola--is it playing a chord?

小提琴弹和弦了吗，那些喇叭呢-,或说每个喇叭都吹和弦了吗，还有中提琴，它也有和弦吗？

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All these people happen to be playing the violin, viola,or what have you next to you.

这些人不只是碰巧在你身边，演奏小提琴或中提琴。

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They have a slightly smaller body to them but violins and violas have the same general construction.

小提琴的外形比中提琴稍微小些,但它们的构造大体相同

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And he is a violist, not a violinist, but the principle here is pretty much the same, so tell us about the construction of the instrument.

他是位中提琴手,不是小提琴手,但提琴的原理都很相近,跟我们讲解下乐器的结构吧

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Now Jacob Adams is a professional violist here in New Haven.

现在到雅各布·亚当斯,他是来自纽海文的职业中提琴手

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The viola is very similar to the violin so anything I sayabout the viola applies to the violin as well, and of course you all are probably familiar with violins and the size.

中提琴和小提琴很相似,所以我讲的一切关于中提琴的原理,同样适用于小提琴,当然,你们可能都比较熟悉小提琴,关于提琴的大小

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The violas are a littl e bit bigger.

中提琴比它稍大些

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String players are taught whether it's cellists going this way, downbeat or violas and violinists coming down this way that the downward motion of the hand or the pull across the strong pull across should come with the downbeat; that emphasizes the downbeat.

弦乐手们都是这样教出来的,是不是大提琴手这样的时候或者中提琴手,还有小提琴手们在这里这样拉,当手势冲下,很重的向下的手势时候,是重拍出现的时候,都是在强调重拍的

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