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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

Object Details Amati, Nicolo Description. This violin was made by Nicolò Amati in Cremona, Italy in 1656. It is the King Loius XIVKing Loius XIV ...