Amati is the name of a family of Italian violin makers, who flourished at Cremona from about 1549 to 1740.

Andrea Amati ( ca.

Andrea Amati was succeeded by his sons Antonio Amati ( born ca.

1537-1607 ) and Girolamo Amati ( ca.

" The Brothers Amati ", as they were known, implemented far-reaching innovations in design, including the perfection of the shape of the f-holes.

Nicolò Amati ( December 3, 1596 – April 12, 1684 ) was the son of Girolamo Amati.

His pattern was unusually small, but he also made a wider model now known as the " Grand Amati ", which have become his most sought-after violins.

While Stradivari's first known violin states that he was a pupil of Amati, the validity of his statement is questioned.

* Patrick O ' Brian's fictional British sea captain Jack Aubrey is described as owning a " fiddle far above his station, an Amati no less ," in The Surgeon's Mate.

In the Wine-Dark Sea, book fifteen of the series, Stephen Maturin now has a Girolamo Amati and Aubrey a Guarneri.

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Cellos were derived from other mid-to large-sized bowed instruments in the 16th century, such as the viola da gamba, and the generally smaller and squarer viola da braccio, and such instruments made by members of the Amati family of luthiers.

Her name was Patrice Amati del Grande, and she became his companion after he separated from his wife.

Other instruments associated with Paganini include the Antonio Amati 1600, the Nicolò Amati 1657, the Paganini-Desaint 1680 Stradivari, the Guarneri-filius Andrea 1706, the Le Brun 1712 Stradivari, the Vuillaume c. 1720 Bergonzi, the Hubay 1726 Stradivari, and the Comte Cozio di Salabue 1727 violins ; the Countess of Flanders 1582 da Salò-di Bertolotti, and the Mendelssohn 1731 Stradivari violas ; the Piatti 1700 Goffriller, the Stanlein 1707 Stradivari, and the Ladenburg 1736 Stradivari cellos ; and the Grobert of Mirecourt 1820 ( guitar ).

Violinists and collectors particularly prize the instruments made by the Gasparo da Salò, Giovanni Paolo Maggini, Stradivari, Guarneri and Amati families from the 16th to the 18th century in Brescia and Cremona and by Jacob Stainer in Austria.

The oldest documented violin to have four strings, like the modern violin, is supposed to have been constructed in 1555 by Andrea Amati, but the date is very doubtful.

While the violins such as those of Amati achieved their classic form before the first half of the century, the viol's form would be standardized later in the century by instrument makers in England.

** Nicolò Amati, Italian violin maker ( d. 1684 )

He also had a collection of keyboard instruments in which he took great delight, especially a piano made at Florence in 1730 ( called in the will ), and violins by Stradivarius and Amati.

A tale is told that he served as an apprentice to the great violin maker Nicolò Amati, based on the appearance in a 1680 census record of a " Christofaro Bartolomei " living in Amati's house in Cremona.

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The city of Cremona is especially noted for its musical history and traditions, including some of the earliest and most renowned luthiers, such as Guarneri and Stradivari and several members of the Amati family.

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