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The credit for the first violin is usually given to a Cremonese luthier named Andrea Amati who had made his name originally as a lute builder.
The credit for the first violin is usually given to a Cremonese luthier named Andrea Amati who had made his name originally as a lute builder. He created at least two three string violins in the 1540s. He was then commissioned to build one of the first four-string violins by the wealthy Medici family in the 1550s.