It was Stradivari who helped earn Cremona its stringed renown. If Amati is the father of the violin, Stradivari is its master. No luthier ever refined the tone of this instrument quite like ...

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to the Tokyo String Quartet, and then to the Takács Quartet before selling them to Dr. Herbert Axelrod in 1998.

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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, a luthier believed to have had Jewish ancestry.

Check out Peter Shaw’s appraisal of a 1926 Ernst Heinrich Roth Amati ... violins in different qualities, and this was a very high-quality instrument for the Roth Company at that time. It has 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.

A Nicolo Amati violin, made circa 1645, and two others wait to be tried out by musicians from "A Far Cry" at Reuning & Son in Brookline. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) Clara Kim stood in a sun-dappled room ...

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 bet. A wealthy French businessman and ...