In 2011, Takashi Ishii, a craftsman specializing in stringed musical instruments who had a studio in Cremona, Italy, learned about the violin and offered to restore it. He made it playable again.

Cremona Violin Dealers and Makers is a quality stringed instruments shop. The most important activities in CREMONA Fine-violin- workshop have always been the repair and meticulous restoration of ...

Francesco Ruggieri (1620-c. 1695) was the first and greatest of a family of violin makers working at Cremona, Italy. A pupil of Nicolo Amati, he patterned his instruments, with some modifications, ...

Cremona in northern Italy is the original home of the Stradivarius violin and now - several centuries later - master craftsmen are still producing hand-made violins and exporting around the world.

The most illustrious of several violin makers in the Bergonzi family was Carlo, born in Cremona, Italy, in 1683 (d. 1747). His training is not documented, but his early instruments show the influence ...

Also making the trip from the Museo was its CEO, Paolo Bodini, the ex-mayor of Cremona. And the Cremonese taxi driver, Luca Voltolini, is a music maven who I see regularly at Museo concerts and events ...

While Cremona’s claim to fame may be its violin-making legacy (a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage), come November, the city’s piazzas are taken over by another symbol of the city - the torrone.