BIRTH
The origins of this instrument are from the Spanish-mauric plains of the 8th century. Then developed in the 16th century with a musical instrument called Rebec (now used in Arabic, in Indonesia Rebab - string instrument with 2-3 strings) and Fidel (string instrument With 5 to 7 strings).
The Biola string instrument was first introduced in Italy, the city of Turkey in 1523. The shape of the violin was displayed in the form of a sculpture or skulpture of "little angels playing the violin" in a church in Vercelli. The first violin consisted of 3 strings.
Since the year 1540 violin has 4 strings with a shape that is not too different from the violin now. This type of violin comes from the upper Italian region. Therefore the famous violinist is from Italy, such as Andrea Amati, Nicola Amati, Gasparo da Salò, Guarnerius del Gesu, Antonio Stradivari. The first violin that has been made, is now used as the Baroque Violin. And since 1950 has become more and more used to show "Baroque Music" (Alte Music), whose sound is adapted to the 17th and 18th centuries.
Walking with the timing of the violin form undergoes several changes with a reason to develop the quality of his voice. The shape of the violin in the 19th century had a longer neck of violin and string, had a stronger bass balcony, making it stronger and more beautiful. In addition Bow Bow also changes shape becomes more straight, not too bent like a baroque bow. Its function is to increase the volume so that it can play hard in the big hall room. It is the most famous violin maker and the standard for other violinists is Stradivarius. But he and other violinists also follow the violin shape change based on the reasons that greatly affect the development of violin sounds. The influence came from France, namely Jean Baptiste Vuillaume.
And according to the ancient records of the Aryans in India, 5,000 years ago, the king of Ravana of Sri Lanka had created a musical instrument using rows, Ravanastron, then Ravanastron spread to Afghanistan and Persia, at the beginning of the 1st century, Da Yue Shi's kingdom in Afghanistan, the shape of the musical instrument was transformed into a pipe shape (Chinese stringed instrument), flat topped, his back from a whole wood carved concave, rather smooth, his tone and resonance rather large. In the 7th century it spread to Arabian territory and when the golden age of Islam its name was changed to Rebab.