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Amati family


Family of Italian violin makers in Cremona in the 16th and 17th centuries. Andrea (c. 1520 – c. 1578) set the form of the modern violin. His two sons Antonio (c. 1550 – 1638) and Girolamo (1561 – 1630) worked together and were known as the brothers Amati. Girolamo's son Nicolò (1596 – 1684), who like his forebears worked in Cremona, is regarded as the family's finest craftsman. Among his famous pupils were Andrea Guarneri and Antonio Stradivari; Nicolò was succeeded by his son Girolamo (1649 – 1740). The great contribution of the Amatis to the development of the violin was their evolution of the flat, shallow model, which, as improved by Stradivari, is capable of producing a brilliant soprano tone.

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