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

The stolen violin is a 1710 Amati, a glossy, curvaceous object made from curly maple and alpine spruce that was crafted by one of the most important violin makers in musical instrument history ...

"Antonio Stradavari claimed on some of his labels to have been a student of Nicolo Amati. But we don't have any record of that." Though most everyone has heard of the Stradivarius line of violins ...

He was long believed to have apprenticed with the famous Amati family, though recent scholarship finds little evidence for this account. Regardless, the Amati designs were the ones to beat ...

59, No. 1, performing on two magnificent sets of instruments, one made by Antonio Stradivari and the other made by his teacher Nicoló Amati. Fort Collins, Colorado inventors and entrepreneurs Amy ...

In 1550, Andrea Amati (who was the grandfather of Nicolo) invented the violin as we know it. Stradivari spent his life improving on the design. In addition to applying more colorful varnishes to ...

This weekend on SoundXchange we have wind, trees and strings susurrating through that airwaves, with a performance by the Amati Quartet, and the haunting poetry of Beth Goobie, read by Amy Matysio.

Made by Stradivari (1644-1737) during the early stage of his career, the violin was his first attempt to break the violin-making tradition that great Cremonese maker Nicolò Amati (1660-1690 ...

Guest violinist Bella Hristova will join the orchestra for Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons,” playing an instrument made in 1655 by Italian artisan Nicolò Amati. The virtual concert will ...