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Violins and fiddles.
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I want to give this a little more thought, but a couple of Led Zeppelin tunes come to mind. Kashmir, for example.

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"Spinning Away" by Eno and Cale wouldn't work without them.

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The devil Went Down To Georgia.That is the only one that springs to mind right now.

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Kansas used the violin quite a bit. YES certainly stamped a lot of their stuff with the violin. I think YES was the perfect type of band for that sort of thing and they did always put on a symphonic signature to their stuff.

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Listen to Loggins & Messina's "Pathway to Glory". Superb violin solo in there.
Frank Zappa also had a decent violinist named Jon Luc Ponty in his band.
Loreena McKennett has a regular "fiddle" player as well.

It's not the instrument that makes or breaks a song, it's the creativity of the musician playing it.

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I'll have to second the "Kashmir" nod, and this next suggestion may fall into more of an alternative category than rock, but the opening track of Silverchair's "Neon Ballroom" makes pretty good use of violins.

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