# Bridge Tasman 5-String Electro-Acoustic Violin

The five-string Tasman electro-acoustic violin by Bridge Violins is an excellent alternative for players looking for top shelf tone at a more affordable price. Unplugged, the Tasman's acoustic sound is excellent, with plenty of color and warmth, a clear, pure high end, and decent projection. The Tasman's amplified tone is where this instrument really shines -- warm than the Golden Tasman, with less brilliance on the high end, with a rich and powerful output signal.

If you've been looking for exceptional tone in a five-string acoustic-electric violin, but the Bridge Golden Tasman 5 is outside of your budget, their Tasman 5-string electro-acoustic offers similar performance at a more affordable price. Its amplified tone has a nice warmth and darkness, with a powerful output and good resistance to feedback, it. Under the ear, the Tasman 5's sound is rich and warm, and with good projection for an acoustic-electric.

Construction of the Tasman is (for the most part) quite traditional. A top of tightly grained spruce and a highly figured maple back and side are finished in a golden oil varnish. That finish is artistically antiqued. There are two main departures from the look of a classical violin. The first will be familiar to anyone who's seen a Bridge violin. The shield (inspired by the 1710 Stradivari Viola da Gamba) that has become one of the company's trademark details sits atop the peg box, instead of a traditional scroll. To mark the electro-acoustic's dual nature, a lightning bolt inlay on the shield goes in place of the stylized lowercase "b" that marks their line of purely electric instruments.

A bigger departure, and one that's conceptually brilliant, is the placement of the Tasman's output jack. Recessed into the arch of the violin's back the inset output jack is a stroke of design genius. It allows any player, even traditional classical players who don't use a shoulder rest, to play the violin comfortably, as long as they use a cable with a straight (rather than right-angle) jack, solving a problem that players who don't use a shoulder rest quickly discover when they attempt to play certain acoustic-electric violins.

### Features

-   High quality spruce front and flamed maple back, with single black purfling and a lightly antiqued rich Venetian-style spirit varnish
-   Ebony fingerboard, nut, pegs, and endpin
-   Thomastik Dominant strings (or equivalent) for the G D A and E strings with a D'Addario Helicore C string
-   Lightweight alloy tailpiece, with integrated fine tuners
-   Ebony Guarneri style chinrest
-   3V coin cell battery provides approximately 500 hours of playing time -- drains only while the jack is connected
-   Custom hardshell case is included

### Specs

Construction

-   Body Length 356mm
-   Neck Stop 130mm
-   Body Stop 195mm

Set Up

-   Nut width 27mm
-   String spacing at nut 20mm
-   String spacing at bridge 39mm
-   Weight 550g approx

Electronics

-   BRIDGE pickup Piezo Configuration
-   Active surface mount preamp
-   Instrument Output 200mV nominal
-   Load Resistance 10K Ohms minimum
-   Battery 1 x Lithium 3V CR2032
-   Battery Life approx. 500 playing hours

## Details

- **Price:** 2288.0 USD
- **Vendor:** Bridge
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## Variants

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| Default Title | 2288.00 USD | In stock |

## Images

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- Bridge Tasman 5-String Electro-Acoustic Violin - Electric Violin Shop
- Bridge Tasman 5-String Electro-Acoustic Violin - Electric Violin Shop
- Bridge Tasman 5-String Electro-Acoustic Violin - Electric Violin Shop
- Bridge Tasman 5-String Electro-Acoustic Violin - Electric Violin Shop
- Bridge Tasman 5-String Electro-Acoustic Violin - Electric Violin Shop
- Bridge Tasman 5-String Electro-Acoustic Violin - Electric Violin Shop
- Bridge Tasman 5-String Electro-Acoustic Violin - Electric Violin Shop
- Bridge Tasman 5-String Electro-Acoustic Violin - Electric Violin Shop

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> Updated: 2026-07-08