World Violin day- the strings that breathes life

The world celebrates Word Violin Day on 13th December every year, hence it is a great opportunity to take a glimpse into the numerous tales and legends which made the history of violin an enriched one. Though its roots are obscured. It is the journey that the violin undertook that should be remembered with praise and a promise to learn more about this instrument which is said to have the touch of the divine.

The mystical beauty of a violin, Source: Pinterest

A Violist performing in a concert, Source: Pinterest

A women playing the violin in leisure, Source: Pinterest

Violin makers and repairers were considered people of great repute who had the skill to produce such a godly instrument with such fine perfection. History records three schools of traditional violin makers who were skilled at their craft of producing violins of the finest precision. The school of Brescia, the school of Venice, and the school of Cremano. The Amatis and the Strasdiveri, the most popular and skilled violin makers that the world still remembers with respect, belong to the school of Cremano.

World Violin Day observed every year on 13th December remembers and celebrates this prestigious history of the violin. So what has to be done to take part in this greatest celebration in the history of music? The best way to celebrate World Violin Day is to go to a Violin concert or live orchestra where violinist performs their gifted skills at the violin, in the company of many other fine instruments like the piano, creating enchanting and spellbound magic around the hall.

Apart from that attending Violin lessons and learning the history of the Violin is also an innovative and participating means to celebrate the history and existence of the violin. Those who are not familiar with the magic of Violin can simply start their acquaintance by adding violin music to their playlist, this is the most organic way to celebrate the day. Modern violin artists around the world are coming forward to showcase their art by performing in concerts, violinists like Eric Stanley and Lindsey Stirling are the most popular in this category.

Though there are many ways to celebrate the violin, the mystical, beautiful instrument which hypnotizes the senses, letting one drift away from its various worldly tensions, one can do their bit by buying a violin. To touch the polished wood of perfection with your hands, to feel the hollowed weight and witness the tremors that the wood experience as one flaunts the bow through the strings, letting out a soft roar of raw music. Let the day be the start of this divine and aesthetic familiarity, by contributing to the great art of violin making.

Music is the epitome that holds the power to enrich a person’s mind instantly. Feeling a little old and blue? Turn on your favorite music and as the melody slowly seeps into your mind, the heart responds with consensus and soon every malady is forgotten, every worry dismissed for the time being as the soothing melody relaxes your senses and urges you to live in the moment, regardless of everything.

In this sense, Musical instruments are the harbinger that makes the existence of music possible. Musical instruments are those man-made carvings made out of wood, plastic, or metal which harbor the ability to create something as magical as music. Hence these man-made things are no less than a wonder whose discovery, invention, and existence in the modern era should be celebrated with great gusto and alarming enthusiasm.

On the 13th of December every year, the world worships and celebrates the discovery and presence of one such medium of austere music, the Violin. The violin belongs to the wide-ranging family of the Soprano, originating in 15th-century Italy. The Turkish and Mongolian nomads are considered its earliest inventors but the roots of the violin are mainly obscure and ambiguous. Most lovingly called ‘Fiddler’, the violin mainly consists of just 4-5 strings perched tight on a long wooden-carved body, a bow with toothed ends is used to fiddle the strings to create gentle and passionate notes which makes the violin unique and popular around the world.

The oldest known tradition of ‘Fiddler’ is said to have originated in Greece, the Greek ‘Lyre’, often associated with divine music and played by gods. Greek mythology is filled with various episodes when the Lyre is mentioned but the most popular one is the half-god Achilles playing the Lyre for his lover, Patroclus. Maybe that’s why the violin started to be recognized as a medium of aesthetic passion and romance, the music and chords that binds two souls in the greatest passions of ecstasy and memory, just like the great warrior Achilles and his companion Patroclus.

In the English language, the word Violin originated from the word ‘Viola’, the Italian diminutive of fiddler and as the Violin’s popularity started breaking boundaries and meeting various other countries and their cultures, the faith in violin started observing the recognition it deserved. It is said that the French King Charles ordered the Amatis to produce around 24 violins in 1556 when he first heard its wonderful music and soon the violin became a favorite of street musicians and the nobility alike.

As times passed, the violin crossed genre boundaries and was soon used in a variety of music forms like Jazz, Western Classical music, folk music, country music, and nowadays even Electronic music.