Sam Zygmuntowicz, a 40-something Brooklynite and the center of John Marchese’s nonfiction book “The Violin Maker,” has been asking questions about the centuries-old craft of violin-making. Those ...

Cremona is a magical name to musicians and music lovers. Master violin makers Antonio Stradivari, Giuseppe Guarneri and Nicolo Amati -- these are only the best-known 17th and 18th century craftsmen ...

It's been four decades since Bernard Neumann left Montreal for Cremona, Italy, to study violin making. The now-renowned luthier, as a violin-maker is called, still draws daily inspiration from his ...

In the northern Italian city of Cremona, where the history of violin began over five centuries ago, the art of violin-making is witnessing a new renaissance. This is the place where Andrea Amati ...

FIVE HUNDRED years ago, give or take a year or two (nobody knows the exact date), Andrea Amati, the founding father of what would become the world's greatest school of violin-makers, was born in ...

CREMONA, Italy (Reuters) - Making violins is a passion in Cremona, the ancient Italian town that has been producing them since the 16th century, but turning passion into profits has not been easy.

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 ...

Peering into a shiny glass case suspended in an exhibit hall, four curious music lovers examine a violin, soft and warm in color with its delicately detailed scroll and wood grain marks iridescent in ...

IN what I have heretofore written upon the violin, that is, the papers, Seeking a Lost Art, and King Cole and his Band, in the Galaxy, and the article Violin in the American Cyclopædia, I have in the ...

It's been four decades since Bernard Neumann left Montreal for Cremona, Italy, to study violin making. The now-renowned luthier, as a violin-maker is called, still draws daily inspiration from his ...