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BC BEFORE CREMONA - JOHN HUBER GEBUNDEN

Based upon the physical resources of our bodies and our environment  music has been part of our
history during the entire development of our civilization. From our earliest efforts to
celebrate life  we have invented tools to facilitate the use of sound to make music. In
sixteenth century Cremona  Andrea Amati developed the instrument models and construction
standards which further refined by his family and colleagues  remain the standards of violin
making. But do we know how the violin developed  or what happened before Cremona? Remnants from
our most ancient centers of civilization often reveal interest in stringed musical instruments
but the use of the bow to sound them is first known among archers of the Asian steppe nomads.
Spreading first to adjacent Asian cultures through trade  conquest  and religion  the idea also
travelled on as East and West discovered and explored each other. The Silk Road  for example 
brought a great exchange of both culture and commerce. Neither the ancient Greeks nor the
Romans knew bowed instruments  but a thousand years before Amati worked in Cremona  Islamic
conquests spread knowledge of bowing and developments in instrument construction across the
known world. In B.C. before Cremona  John Huber presents that history  and illustrates
instrument development with photographic examples.

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