It is generally agreed the instrument we know today in western music as the violin had its origin in the Arabic rabab which has only two strings.
His name was Andrea Amati.
Andrea Amati was credited with the invention of the violin.
Amati was in Italy when he created the first violin. he was 13 at the time.
Andrea Amati
Andrea Amati's "best" violin out of all, costed approximately $250,000,000. His others costed about $100,000,000.
Andrea Amati
in about the 9th centuary.
1,234,647,457,467,454$
Violin
from how i feel and what i know Andrea amati was the first to invent the violin..!
There are a family of Italian violin makers one of whom was names Andrea Amati, who made the famous Amati Violins!
No, Amati was not a composer, he was a luthier who invented the violin in the style still used today.