The 🎻 Violin emoji can be used in a number of ways; it can be used to denote violin music, with the 🎼 Musical Score emoji to indicate a performance or it can be used in a sarcastic sense of playing the world's smallest violin. The Apple violin emoji shows a wooden violin with dark wood accents while the Google emoji is shown as a flat image in maroon and black. In the Apple emoji, the bow is across the violin, as if playing it while most other emojis show the bow next to the instrument.