Who Made the Violin First? A Look at Its Early Roots
If you've ever sat down and wondered who made the violin first, you're actually stepping into a bit of a historical mystery that takes us back to the dusty workshops of 16th-century Italy. While we'd love to have a single "Aha!" moment where a lone inventor held up a finished violin, it didn't quite happen that way. Instead, the violin we know today sort of emerged from a soup of other stringed instruments, though one man usually gets the lion's share of the credit for giving it its final, iconic shape. ...