Dec 3, 2007 ... 1555 or sometime in the 16th century. This attached article says the first documented violin was made in 1555 by Amati. ...
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Look up Violin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, including the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used ...
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There is concrete evidence that there is no way he could have possibly fiddled while Rome burned: the fiddle was not invented until the dark ages/ Renaissance (probably spelled wrong). How could Fiddle 1500 years or so before the fiddle was invented?
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Violin or Fiddle? What's the Difference? ... There is also evidence that fine tuners alter the quality of harmonics (higher frequencies), but this it's to be debated too. Thus a ridiculous stereotype was invented: violinists use the pegs, fiddlers use fine tuners.
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Benny Edward Martin (May 8, 1928 - March 13, 2001), was an American bluegrass fiddler who invented the 8-string fiddle. Born in Sparta, Tennessee, his father and two of his sisters played music profe...
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The Renaissance fiddle, c. 1500, had five strings, (one a drone), and frets. Shaped like the violin, it had a top and back with connecting ribs, ... Lyons, 1556.) The controversy over who invented the first violin is probably not answerable; Gasparo da Saló was a candidate, as were several Brescian craftsmen.
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It occurred to me that, yes, the French "invented" the Fiddle Pattern long before it was utilized by Britain and America. However, I'm interested in who firts combined the oar handle and shouldered stem in the Anglo-American tradition.
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What is the hardanger fiddle? ... When was the fiddle invented? Read answer... ... Who invented the fiddle?
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What is the hardanger fiddle? ... When was the fiddle invented? Read answer... ... Who invented the fiddle?
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Fiddle was invented only around 1555 or sometime in the 16th century. ... How could Nero be playing ‘fiddle’ (a violin which) when on the night of Rome’s burning – July 18th to 19th AD 64 – fiddles had not yet been invented in 1st-century Rome?
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