History of Violin

 Violin History

 The Arabian rabab and the rebec, which came from the orient in the middle ages and was played widely in Spain and France in the fifteenth century, are said to be the ancestors of the violin. Near the end of the middle ages, a bowed stringed instrument called a fiddle appeared in Europe. 

The violins played today have a developed from the bowed instrument played in the Middle Ages(400 A.D. to 1600 A.D.) and the Renaissance. Italian Andrea Amati was one of the earlier violin maker. He first created violin in the 1500s and his family continued the tradition.