This violin was made by Nicolò Amati in Cremona, Italy, 1672. It is the Florian Zajic violin has a top of spruce with grain of medium width, two-piece back of quarter sawn maple with flame of medium ...

Object Details Amati, Nicolo Description This violin was made by Nicolò Amati in Cremona, Italy in 1656. It is the King Loius XIV violin with a top of spruce with grain of narrow width, one-piece back ...

Check out a $2 million maple-and-spruce violin from Reuning & Son Violins in Boston's Back Bay. It was handcrafted by Italian luthier Nicolò Amati in 1669.

In a special concert, A Far Cry chamber orchestra teams up with Reuning & Son Violins to perform an entire program on rare instruments by legendary luthiers like Stradavarius, Amati and Guarderi.

Master violin makers Antonio Stradivari, Giuseppe Guarneri and Nicolo Amati -- these are only the best-known 17th and 18th century craftsmen who put the Italian town on the international map.

The main thing Stradivari did was just chop off an Amati corner, because [Nicolo] Amati's violins had long, extended corners that would get caught on things.

Strummed, plucked, or bowed, violins had been making music for centuries before Andrea Amati and Antonio Stradivari brought them to new heights in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The 1710 Amati violin was lifted from a California art dealer's car, which was parked outside his home in L.A.'s Los Feliz.

The 1710 Amati violin was lifted from a California art dealer's car, which was parked outside his home in L.A.'s Los Feliz.