Angel playing the Violin on a wooden post. A lot of the paintings of an angel playing the violins it all to do with the Bible this a holy thing which some famous painter did. The violin, viola, and cello were first made in the early 16th century, in Italy. The earliest evidence for their existence is in paintings by Gaudenzio Ferrari from the 1530s, though Ferrari`s instruments had only three strings. The Academie musicale, a treatise written in 1556 by Philibert Jambe de Fer, gives a clear description of the violin family much as we know it today. Violins are likely to have been developed from many other string instruments of the 15th and 16th centuries. The history of bowed string instruments in Europe goes back to the 9th century with the Byzantine lira or lūrā, Greek: λύρα. Since their invention, instruments in the violin family have seen many changes. The overall pattern for the instrument was set in the 17th century by luthiers like the prolific Amati family, Jakob Stainer of the Tyrol, and Antonio Stradivari, with many makers at the time and since following their templates.

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