From 《The Music of Man》 (4)

小提琴的来历：

In that translucent light and air of the plains (in Africa), it is possible to hear for miles, to smell the coming of a storm, detect the movement of prowling beasts. The hunt became as much as a part of survival as the harvest, and no instrument altered the balance of power more swiftly in man's favor than the discovery of the bow and arrow, which gives man control over the animal from a distance. For the hunter this was not yet a weapon of war, but a matching of forces; only the necessity of food made man and animal antagonists. From the ritual of the hunt sprang music; the bow could produce a mellifluous twang. A widely held view is that the bow and arrow are ancestor to the violin.