Made by Andrea Amati for the French king Charles IX, this violin dates to 1564. It is considered to be one of the oldest surviving examples of a modern violin. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England.

New research carried out by the National Taiwan University has found that the sound of violins made by Amati and Stradivarius closely mimics the resonances of the human voice The design of the modern ...

One instrument was made in 1570 by Andrea Amati, the luthier from Cremony, Italy who is considered to be the father of the modern four-string violin. Others played in the study were from the ...

Andrea Amati made the first violin in 1564 in Cremona, Italy. One hundred and two years later in 1666 Stradivari made his first violin. The craftsmanship that went into building these splendid ...

Andrea Amati (1505-1577) crystalised the design and manufacture of the violin at Cremona in Italy for ever after. All the makers after him, including Antonio Stardivari, have simply evolved the ...

This was Andrea Amati, the first of the great “ Cremona violin ” makers, and the first of a family which for four generations, and through a century and a half, maintained and augmented the ...

including one from 1570 by Andrea Amati, the early 16th-century luthier from Cremony, Italy who is considered to be the father of the modern four-string violin. Others played in the study were from ...

And Andrea Amati is the maker that started the tradition of violin making in Cremona. ANDREA SHEA: Coppiardio himself is from Cremona. The Northern Italian city was a hot-bed of violinmaking from ...