131
edits
no edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 30: | Line 30: | ||
The violin was first known in 16th-century [[Italy]], with some further modifications occurring in the 18th and 19th centuries to give the instrument a more powerful sound and projection. In Europe, it served as the basis for the development of other stringed instruments used in Western classical music, such as the [[viola]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Singh|first1=Jhujhar|title=Interview: Kala Ramnath|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1SoZSosu6Y|website=News X|publisher=YouTube|access-date=5 September 2015}}</ref><ref name=heron>{{cite book|last1=Allen|first1=Edward Heron|title=Violin-making, as it was and is: Being a Historical, Theoretical, and Practical Treatise on the Science and Art of Violin-making, for the Use of Violin Makers and Players, Amateur and Professional. Preceded by An Essay on the Violin and Its Position as a Musical Instrument|date=1914|publisher= E. Howe}} Accessed 5 September 2015.</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Choudhary|first1=S.Dhar|title=The Origin and Evolution of Violin as a Musical Instrument and Its Contribution to the Progressive Flow of Indian Classical Music: In search of the historical roots of violin|date=2010|publisher=Ramakrisna Vedanta Math|isbn=978-9380568065|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dUQWMwEACAAJ&q=history+violin+India|access-date=5 September 2015}}</ref> | The violin was first known in 16th-century [[Italy]], with some further modifications occurring in the 18th and 19th centuries to give the instrument a more powerful sound and projection. In Europe, it served as the basis for the development of other stringed instruments used in Western classical music, such as the [[viola]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Singh|first1=Jhujhar|title=Interview: Kala Ramnath|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1SoZSosu6Y|website=News X|publisher=YouTube|access-date=5 September 2015}}</ref><ref name=heron>{{cite book|last1=Allen|first1=Edward Heron|title=Violin-making, as it was and is: Being a Historical, Theoretical, and Practical Treatise on the Science and Art of Violin-making, for the Use of Violin Makers and Players, Amateur and Professional. Preceded by An Essay on the Violin and Its Position as a Musical Instrument|date=1914|publisher= E. Howe}} Accessed 5 September 2015.</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Choudhary|first1=S.Dhar|title=The Origin and Evolution of Violin as a Musical Instrument and Its Contribution to the Progressive Flow of Indian Classical Music: In search of the historical roots of violin|date=2010|publisher=Ramakrisna Vedanta Math|isbn=978-9380568065|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dUQWMwEACAAJ&q=history+violin+India|access-date=5 September 2015}}</ref> | ||
Violinists and collectors particularly prize the fine historical instruments made by the [[Stradivari]], [[Guarneri]], [[Guadagnini]] and [[Amati]] families from the 16th to the 18th century in [[Brescia]] and [[Cremona]] (Italy) and by [[Jacob Stainer]] in [[Austria]]. According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or equal it, though this belief is disputed.<ref name="NYT-201430407">{{cite news |last=Belluck |first=Pam |title=A Strad? Violinists Can't Tell |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/science/a-strad-violinists-cant-tell.html |date=April 7, 2014 |work=[[New York Times]] |access-date=April 9, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Christopher Joyce|title=Double-Blind Violin Test: Can You Pick The Strad?|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/01/02/144482863/double-blind-violin-test-can-you-pick-the-strad?sc=fb&cc=fp|publisher=[[NPR]]|year=2012|access-date=2012-01-02}}</ref> Great numbers of instruments have come from the hands of less famous makers, as well as still greater numbers of mass-produced commercial "trade violins" coming from cottage industries in places such as [[Saxony]], [[Bohemia]], and [[Mirecourt]]. Many of these trade instruments were formerly sold by [[Sears|Sears, Roebuck and Co.]] and other mass merchandisers. | |||