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, ...

Considered by many to be the 'perfect instrument', the violin of today shares the basic ... Cremona in Italy — the Stradivari, Guarneri and Amati families; little has changed since then.

The violin is the smallest and highest-pitched of the string instrument family. Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres - they are most prominent in the Western classical ...