I got an email this week from David, an electrical engineering student at Clarkson University, who is developing an illuminated electric violin. I've always been a bit of a traditionalist fuddy-duddy when it comes to electric violins, so you can imagine how my old-fashioned eyebrows went up when I saw a violin that actually puts on its own light show while you play it! I've never seen anything like this before and am impressed by the truly beautiful sound (and the fact that he plays Ashokan Farewell on the video!), so I thought some of you Hot Violinists out there might wanna check it out.

If that tickled your fancy and you want to support the project, check out David's Kickstarter page. If he gets enough support, he'll be able to bring the violin into production.