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	Cozio.com: Violins, violas, cellos & double basses made by Antonio Stradivari
		It was always assumed that Antonio himself had written in his age, as a sign of pride, but a recent re-examination of these labels suggests that they weren't written by Antonio at all, but possibly by Cozio di Salabue, who acquired the instruments from Antonio's son Paolo.
		John Dilworth and others have pointed out that Stradivari's instruments do not have the pin point on the inside of the back, which is a signature characteristic of all instruments from the Amati family as well as everyone trained by Nicolo Amati.
		The Hills estimated that Stradivari, aided by his sons Francesco, Omobono, and (for a few years) Giovanni Battista Martino, made some 1,200 instruments during his long life, of which less than 700 still exist.
	www.cozio.com /Luthier.aspx?id=17 (0 words)

	Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Stradivarius Violins
		Antonio Stradivari was born in 1644, and established his shop in Cremona, Italy, where he remained active until his death in 1737.
		In addition, thousands of violins have been made in tribute to Stradivari, copying his model and bearing labels that read "Stradivarius." Therefore, the presence of a Stradivarius label in a violin has no bearing on whether the instrument is a genuine work of Stradivari himself.
		This inscription indicates the maker (Antonio Stradivari), the town (Cremona), and "made in the year," followed by a date that is either printed or handwritten.
	www.si.edu /Encyclopedia_SI/nmah/stradv.htm (748 words)

	Cigar Aficionado \| Archives \| Stradivari Unveiled
		The finest of Stradivari's predecessors, and most of his contemporaries, produced smaller instruments with fairly high curved or arching backs that produced beautiful but thin tones, suitable for the church services or small chamber music ensembles that entertained the nobles who were their patrons.
		Stradivari and Guarneri were the megastars in a galaxy of superlative seventeenth and eighteenth century violin makers, whose serendipitous residence in Cremona has given the name Cremonese to all the stringed instruments produced in that time and place.
		When he died on Dec. 18, 1737, Stradivari was interred in one of the small chapels in the Church of San Domenico, across the plaza from his home, in the plot he had purchased from the descendant of a family of minor Cremonese nobles.
	www.cigaraficionado.com /Cigar/CA_Archives/CA_Show_Article/0,2322,679,00.html (5325 words)

	Antonio Stradivari, Chapter Two, Part One
		Stradivari, unlike several of Nicolo Amati's other pupils, did not make his master's name generally known by mentioning the fact that he was his apprentice on the various labels he inserted in his instruments during so many years.
		With Stradivari the curves are stiffer and less rounded, and especially noticeable is his treatment of the corners and the bouts; the two edges are broader in aspect and heavier in actual substance, all rendered the more apparent by an increase of margin round the sides, and the purfling being set a shade farther in.
		Stradivari had now reached the plenitude of his powers as a craftsman, for it cannot be gainsaid that in point of sharpness, accuracy, and beauty of finish some of the examples of the years 1686, 1687, 1688, 1689, and 1690 stand unsurpassable.
	www.cello.org /heaven/hill/two.htm (4213 words)

	Antonio Stradivari Summary
		Stradivari's wife died in 1698, and she was honored with a large funeral.
		Antonio Stradivari died in Cremona, Italy on December 18, 1737 and is buried in Cremona.
		This is not to take away from Stradivari's fine skills as a luthier, but it is no coincidence that the abrupt availability of such particularly rare timber directly corresponds with the emergence of what some consider to be the most pure sounding wood instruments in the world.
	www.bookrags.com /Antonio_Stradivari (2137 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Antonio Stradivari
		As there is no evidence of his birth and baptism in any of the parish registers of Cremona, it is supposed that he was born in some village near that town.
		In 1680 Stradivari set up for himself in the Piazza San Domenico, and his fame as a violin-maker was soon established.
		On account of the gradual rise in pitch the increased pressure of the strings demands an increased power of resistance in the bar underneath the bridge, hence it has been found necessary to re-bar all the old violins and violoncellos.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14311a.htm (374 words)

	Stradivarius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stradivari is the surname of one of the most famous violin-making families in history.
		The founder, Antonio Stradivari, was born in Italy in 1644.
		The fame of Stradivari's violins is not a modern phenomenon: the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is supposed to have owned one; another famous story is about a Stradivarius Cello, known as the "Duport" which has the spur marks of Emperor Napoleon, who scratched the cello when he tried to play it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stradivarius (2336 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Stradivari, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Stradivari's earliest extant label is dated 1666 and his last 1737.
		STRADIVARI: LORD OF THE STRINGS; His name is synonymous with the greatest violins ever made.
		The Stradivari Society, which lends top violins to promising musicians, requires its players to perform for their benefactors.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Stradivari, (763 words)

	Violin- Famous Violin Makers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1690, Stradivari adopted the "long pattern"; it had a flatter, narrower bouts, darker tone, darker color, stronger arches in the front and back, and a bodylength one quarter longer than usual.
		Stradivari's style again changed in 1700 when he began to use a finer selection of reddish brown varnish.
		Antonio Stradivari died December 18, 1737 in Cremona, Italy at the age of ninety-three.
	atdp.berkeley.edu /2030/jmoriuchi/violin-famousviolinmakers.html (506 words)

	Antonio Stradivari, instrument maker of the Divine
		Stradivari married in July of 1667, to one Francesca Feraboschim, a young widow who bore him six children.
		Stradivari was buried in the Basilica of San Domenico.
		Stradivari fixed the exact shape and position of the sound-holes, and his model has been copied by most makers since his time.
	www.geocities.com /ganesha_gate/strad.html (1803 words)

	'Masters at the Beginning of the Art' (February 1999) - Library of Congress Information Bulletin
		Executive Director of the Stradivari Society John Kang explained that the group is dedicated to advancing the careers of artists by joining patrons and their acquisitions with violinists, violists and cellists.
		Stradivari in particular was experimental with shape and size … of the violin as he progressed through four distinctive periods."
		Stradivari's "golden period" instruments (1700-1720s) render a broader, richer sound, while those of the last period (1730s) produce a darker, deeper voice "as happens to us when we age," observed Mr.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/9902/stradivari.html (1251 words)

	The Stradivari Family
		Signor Mandelli gives, as the earliest known mention of it, a document dated May, 1188, in which it is recorded that certain pieces of land were leased by the canon and chief warden of the cathedral of Cremona to one Giovanni Stradiverto and his heirs.
		Arisi, the Cremonese monk, who wrote concerning Antonio Stradivari in 1720, mentions: Galiero Stradivari, a learned Orientalist, who lived in the thirteenth century; Alessandro Stradivari, another Orientalist, about the end of the thirteenth century; Costanzo Stradivari, of about the same period, a monk, who wrote a treatise on the natural philosophy of Aristotle.
		The earliest documentary record of his ancestry is to be found in the marriage registry of the cathedral of Cremona, where there is an entry, dated April, 1600, of the marriage of Giulio Cesare Stradivari, of the parish of S. Michele Vecchio, to Doralice Milani, of the parish of the cathedral.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/stradivari_family.html (553 words)

	The Stradivari Society - Coming Soon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Stradivari and Guarneri del Gesù violins are the da Vinci's of the instrument world.
		Likewise several of the finest Stradivari violins were sold recently including the "Dolphin" 1714, "Sasserno" 1717, "Muntz" 1736 and the "Jupiter" 1721, the "Bass of Spain" cello 1713, all at record prices.
		The "Leopold Auer" Stradivari was owned and named in honor of the most influential pedagogue of the late 19th and early 20th centuries—the legendary teacher of Heifetz, Elman, and Milstein.
	www.stradivarisociety.com /InvestInInstrument.htm (2042 words)

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