Master violin maker Antonio Stradivari inspects his creation in an illustration of his Cremona workshop. Made by Andrea Amati for the French king Charles IX, this violin dates to 1564. It is ...

Indeed, Chicago violin-maker Michael Darnton’s approach is ... Nicolo Amati was the grandson of Andrea Amati, who some credit with making the first violins, although most historians, including ...

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 ...

It is well established that early violin makers strived to recreate the sound of the human ... The study included two of the oldest to have survived: the 1570 Andrea Amati violin and the 1560 Gasparo ...

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 ...

Jimi Hendrix performs at the Woodstock Music Festival in Bethel, Aug. 18, 1969 ((DMN file / Larry Morris/The New York Times)) The Italian luthier Andrea Amati crafted the first modern violin in ...

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 exhibition includes handcrafted pieces not only by Stradivari, but also by other master violin-makers such as Andrea Amati and Guarneri del Gesu. Though the name “Stradivari” connotes ...

the greatest of all violin makers. Conor Gricmanis with the 1572 Andrea Amati violin This particular violin, Conor, said, was believed to have been commissioned by Catherine de Medici and ended up ...