Cremonese violin craftsmanship is highly renowned for its traditional process of fashioning and restoring violins, violas, cellos and contrabass. Violin-makers attend a specialized school, based on a ...

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, ...

The Museo del Violino (Violin Museum) in Cremona, Italy, is a musical instrument museum that displays both modern and historical pieces, including famous string instruments by Antonio Stradivari, ...

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 ...

There is a definite mystique surrounding a Strad. Just the idea of playing a Stradivarius “makes you feel better,” Vettori ...

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.

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 ...

Andrea Amati (1505-1577) crystalised the design and manufacture of the violin at Cremona in Italy for ever after. All the makers after him, including Antonio Stardivari, have simply evolved the ...

From 4 to 6 October and then from 9 to 17 November the event with tastings, products, conferences, and proposals from chefs ...

From 1982 to 1984 he was the chief repairman for Stephen P. McGhee Violins in New York. In 1984 he spent six months in Cremona, Italy, studying Italian violin-making techniques. From 1985 to 1994 ...

Cremonese violin craftsmanship is highly renowned for its traditional process of fashioning and restoring violins, violas, cellos and contrabasses. Violin-makers attend a specialized school, based on ...