Can you name a male or female Black string player off the top of your head? If you have never heard of Sanford Allen, he ...

His first high-level fine violin came from the Mandell Collection: a 1665 Amati, "It was a really great instrument." The next violin was a 1675 Andrea Guarneri. "I was playing on that violin for the ...

produced by Italian instrument-maker Andrea Amati in the mid-16th century. Made in Cremona, Italy, the same town that was home to violin maker Antonio Stradivari, it’s believed to be the oldest ...

Scientists, luthiers and musicians attempt to recreate the Stradivari violin ... Andrea Mosconi is the curator of this museum. [Italian spoken audio] There are three big families. Andrea Amati ...

Marzadori joined the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra as First Violin in 2014, at just 25 years ... In 2004, she won the ‘Andrea Amati’ National Contest for Young Violinists. The chairman of that jury was ...

Marzadori joined the Scala Theatre Orchestra as first violin in 2014 ... In 2004, she won the ‘Andrea Amati’ National Contest for Young Violinists. The chairperson of that jury was the ...

The violin as we know it today — the instrument with four strings and f-shaped holes — was developed in Cremona in the 16th century by Andrea Amati ... and tried the first measures of a ...

Cremona was home to some of history’s most famous luthiers, makers of stringed instruments: Stradivari; Andrea Amati, considered “the father of the violin”; and the Guarneri family.

The violin’s fame began when it was gifted to the legendary violin virtuoso, Niccolò Paganini, who had just lost a very expensive Amati violin on a bad gambling ... described the job as “a kind of ...

"In a sense, this harks back to the times of Amati, where Nicolò employed the likes of Andrea Guarneri ... pay for their violin cases." And so what are the lessons, from 40 years in business? "There ...

Friday marked three years since a 1710 Amati violin was taken from a property in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles, according to the FBI. The Los Angeles Times reported Rowland Weinstein paid $ ...