Another innovation occurred when the bow harp was straightened out and a bridge used to lift the strings off the stick-neck, creating the lute. In turn, this led to being able to play dyads and chords. From the musical bow, families of stringed instruments developed since each string played a single note, adding strings added new notes, creating bow harps, harps and lyres. 13,000 BC, a cave painting in the Trois Frères cave in France depicts what some believe is a musical bow, a hunting bow used as a single-stringed musical instrument. Hunting bow or musical instrument on cave wallĭating to c. Residents of Asia were playing them as far back as the 2nd century A.D. Muslims picked these instruments in Central Asia, calling them barbat and oud. These instruments developed from short-handled lutes that entered Christian Europe from Muslim Sicily and Spain. They toured Europe and America, and their performances created a stir that helped the mandolin to become widely popular.Īlthough the modern instruments date to the 18th century, ancestral instruments of similar construction and range, the mandore and gittern, were used across Europe (including Spain, Italy, England, France, Germany and Poland) centuries earlier. The deep bowled mandolin, especially the Neapolitan form, became common in the 19th century, following the appearance of an international hit, the Spanish Students. Credit for creating the modern bowlback version of the instrument goes to the Vinaccia family of Naples. The instrument was played across Europe but then disappeared after the Napoleonic Wars. The mandolin is a modern member of the lute family, dating back to Italy in the 18th century. This used to be the common picture of the mandolin, an obscure instrument of romance in the hands of a Spanish nobleman. In 1787 Luigi Bassi played the role of Don Giovanni in Mozart's opera, serenading a woman with a mandolin.
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