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The violin/fiddle is popular in many countries, cultures and music styles. A violin is a small four-stringed instrument, played with a bow. There is no difference between violins and fiddles apart from the name. People who play folk or traditional music tend to call them fiddles, while classical musicians call them violins. The word violin comes from the Middle Latin word vitula meaning stringed instrument.

The violin is the highest pitched member of the chordophone family of instruments. Chordophones are stringed instruments that are either plucked or played with a bow. Surprisingly, the piano is also considered to be part of this family. Other members of the chordophone family include guitars, banjos, cellos, violas and harps.
Someone who plays the violin is called a violinist or a fiddler. The violinist produces sound by drawing a bow across one or more strings, by plucking the strings, or by a variety of other techniques. The violin is played by musicians in a wide variety of musical genres, including Baroque music, classical, jazz, folk music, rock and roll, and Soft rock. The violin has come to be played in many non-Western music cultures all over the world.

The violins played today have developed from the bowed instruments played in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Italian Andrea Amati was one of the earliest violin makers. He first created violins in the 1500s, and his family continued the tradition.

Other famous violin makers include Antonio Stradivarius, Giuseppe Guarneri and Jacob Stainer.

You could celebrate this day by listening to your favorite violin music, spending time with a violinist you know, watch a concert featuring the violin or why not lear how to play the violin!

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