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> Introduction

 

Where does the violin come from? What are its ancestors? These seemingly unimportant questions have left perplex many an historian and expert who have tried in vain to unravel the mystery by studying the etymology!

Behind the perfection of the violin as we know it today - from every point of view - is the laborious evolution whose beginnings are lost in the mists of time...

1. Origin
2. Chronology

 

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