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.

Inspired by Geminiani’s writings, Hwan-Ching Tai, Yen-Ping Shen, Jer-Horng Lin and Dai-Ting Chung decided to find out use speech analysis techniques to look in detail at the resonances of a number of ...

Dr Hwan-Ching Tai told MailOnline: 'Andrea Amati's violin could reproduce the first four resonance bands of the vocal tract. 'The vocal tract is a tube, but the violin is not tube but a resonator box.

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 ...

Andrea Amati, the founder of the school, began to make violins about 1550; Carlo Bergonzi, its last great exemplar, continued to make instruments until 1755—60; and Guarneri del Gesù died in 1745.

Music historians have long suspected that the inventors of the violin wanted to imitate the human voice, and a study out on Monday shows how 16th to 18th century luthiers in Italy did it. Researchers ...

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 ...