However, historians have many different views on the origin of the violin. One said that it originated from the "turtle shell piano". A young man was walking on the beach when he suddenly heard a pleasant voice. He looked carefully and found that it was the sound of kicking the turtle shell empty, and the turtle shell was shaking.
He went home to ponder and invented a musical instrument similar to an empty turtle shell. The hole of violin or the evolution of tortoise shell. Some say it originated from North Africa, some from India, some from Western Europe and so on.
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Legend of violin: 5000 years ago, there was a Sri Lankan monarch named Rivana. He hollowed out the cylindrical wood and made it into an instrument very similar to China's erhu, called Lavana stron. In the long history, Rivana Sterlon spread everywhere with trade and was the originator of violin.
However, according to historical records, the earliest violin was made by a man named Dasaro, who lived in the northern Italian town of Brescia. But in the same period, Andrea Amatier (520- 1580) in cremona, Grimon also made a violin more similar to the modern one.
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