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Violinists and collectors particularly prize e fine historical instruments made by the Stradivari, Guarneri, Guadagnini and Amati families from the 16th to the 18th century in Brescia and Cremona (Italy) and by Jacob Stainer in Austria. According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or equal it, though this belief is disputed.[4][5] Great numbers of instruments have come from the hands of less famous makers, as well as still greater numbers of mass-produced commercial “trade violins” coming from cottage industries in places such as Saxony, Bohemia, and Mirecourt. Many of these trade instruments were formerly sold by Sears, Roebuck and Co. and other mass merchandisers.
The components of a violin are usually made from different types of wood. Violins can be strung with gut, Perlon or other synthetic, or steel strings. A person who makes or repairs violins is called a luthier or violinmaker. One who makes or repairs bows is called an archetier or bowmaker.
Etymology
The word “violin” was first used in English in the 1570s.[6] The word “violin” comes from “Italian violino, a diminutive of viola. The term “viola” comes from the expression for “tenor violin” in 1797, from Italian and Old Provençal viola, [which came from] Medieval Latin vitula as a term which means ‘stringed instrument‘, perhaps [coming] from Vitula, Roman goddess of joy…, or from related Latin verb vitulari, “to cry out in joy or exaltation.”[7] The related term Viola da gamba meaning ‘bass viol‘ (1724) is from Italian, literally “a viola for the leg” (i.e. to hold between the legs).”[7] A violin is the “modern form of the smaller, medieval viola da braccio.” (“arm viola”)[6]
The violin is often called a fiddle. “Fiddle” can be used as the instrument’s customary name in folk music, or as an informal name for the instrument in other styles of music.[8] The word “fiddle” was first used in English in the late 14th century.[8] The word “fiddle” comes from “fedele, fydyll, fidel, earlier fithele, from Old English fiðele ‘fiddle‘, which is related to Old Norse fiðla, Middle Dutch vedele, Dutch vedel, Old High German fidula, German Fiedel, ‘a fiddle‘; all of uncertain origin.” As to the origin of the word “fiddle”, the “…usual suggestion, based on resemblance in sound and sense, is that it is from Medieval Latin vitula.”[8]
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The earliest stringed instruments were mostly plucked (for example, the Greek lyre). Two-stringed, bowed instruments, played upright and strung and bowed with horsehair, may have originated in the nomadic equestrian cultures of Central Asia, in forms closely resembling the modern-day Mongolian Morin huur and the Kazakh Kobyz. Similar and variant types were probably disseminated along east–west trading routes from Asia into the Middle East,[9][10] and the Byzantine Empire.[11][12]
Rebec, fiddle and lira da braccio are generally considered the ancestors of the violin,[13] Several sources suggest alternative possibilities for the violin’s origins, such as northern or western Europe.[14][15][16] The first makers of violins probably borrowed from various developments of the Byzantine lyra. These included the vielle (also known as the fidel or viuola) and the lira da braccio.[11][17] The violin in its present form emerged in early 16th-century northern Italy. The earliest pictures of violins, albeit with three strings, are seen in northern Italy around 1530, at around the same time as the words “violino” and “vyollon” are seen in Italian and French documents. One of the earliest explicit descriptions of the instrument, including its tuning, is from the Epitome musical by Jambe de Fer, published in Lyon in 1556.[18] By this time, the violin had already begun to spread throughout Europe.
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The violin proved very popular, both among street musicians and the nobility; the French king Charles IX ordered Andrea Amati to construct 24 violins for him in 1560.[19] One of these “noble” instruments, the Charles IX, is the oldest surviving violin. The finest Renaissance carved and decorated violin in the world is the Gasparo da Salò (c.1574) owned by Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria and later, from 1841, by the Norwegian virtuoso Ole Bull, who used it for forty years and thousands of concerts, for its very powerful and beautiful tone, similar to that of a Guarneri.[20] “The Messiah” or “Le Messie” (also known as the “Salabue”) made by Antonio Stradivari in 1716 remains pristine. It is now located in the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford.[21]