The Italian luthier Andrea Amati crafted the first modern violin in 1555, and music was never the same. A century later, Paduan music master ...

On a small terra-cotta stove, a pot of animal-hide glue gently bubbles. A jar of colored varnish, its recipe a closely guarded secret, sits nearby. It was here, in the 16th century, that the violin as ...

Rising NYC septet All Boy/All Girl celebrate the release of their new single “Andrea Amati” with a live performance video, premiering today. All Boy/All Girl thrive on complexity, crafting carefully ...

The Amati “King” cello is the earliest surviving bass instrument of the violin family. Made in the mid-1500s by Andrea Amati, the founding master of the Cremonese violin tradition, it remains ...

Andrea Amati made the first violin in 1564 in Cremona, Italy. One hundred and two years later in 1666 Stradivari made his first violin.

MARCO COPPIARDI: This is a cello that Andrea Amati made in 1572. And Andrea Amati is the maker that started the tradition of violin making in Cremona. ANDREA SHEA: Coppiardio himself is from Cremona.

There is a violin and viola crafted by master Cremonese luthier Andrea Amati that was likely created for the marriage of King Philip II of Spain and Elisabeth of Valois.

A study suggests that the seemingly ineffable tonal qualities of antique Italian violins might stem from their ability to mimic acoustic features of the human voice. Andrea Amati, the early 16th ...

Researchers at National Taiwan University asked a professional violinist to play 15 antique instruments, including one from 1570 by Andrea Amati, the early 16th-century luthier from Cremony, Italy who ...