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Originally Posted by Stone Birds
i've bowed a guitar through my amp so i don't see why not.
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holy crap no.
there's a huge difference between running a guitar through a guitar amp and running a violin through a guitar amp. the fact that you bowed your guitar is completely irrelevant to the comparison.
all amps are built to handle a certain range of sound frequencies based around the traditional range provided by whatever instrument they're being manufactured to handle. in the case of a violin you need an amp that can properly handle LOTS of really high end frequencies - unless you don't mind having it sound like crap and likely shredding your speaker.
there ARE actual violin amps out there and they're not exorbitantly more expensive than any other amp out there.
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worse case if you can't find a proper violin amp, the next best bet would be a keyboard amp as those things are made to handle one of (if not 'the') widest range of frequencies out there as far as mass produced amplifiers go.