Fine Instruments, Makers and Stories

Discover Luiz Amorim’s masterpieces:Timeless Craftsmanship, Ready Sound Join us for a unique violin, viola, and cello viewing event featuring handcrafted masterpieces by Luiz Amorim from Cremona. Known worldwide for his historical instrument replicas, Luiz's creations look and sound like old classics. At the event, you’ll have the opportunity to: Los Angeles Dates: October 25, 27 […]

For three days this October, Amorim Fine Violins opens its doors to a rare gathering of instruments by the greatest makers of Cremona, the small city that gave the world the violin, and perfected it. Across a single golden century, one workshop taught another, and a handful of masters carried the Cremonese art from its first flowering to its absolute summit. This exhibition follows that line, […]

Antonio Stradivari’s violins are not sitting in private drawers waiting to be discovered. Today, the surviving instruments belong to a select group of owners: major museums, central and commercial banks, dedicated music foundations, and a small circle of private collectors and virtuoso soloists.  Of the more than 1,100 instruments Stradivari is believed to have made […]

For a working cellist, choosing an instrument is nothing like a first purchase. There is no beginner budget to respect, no rental period to outgrow. What matters instead is finding an instrument that can carry a career: something with the projection, complexity, and responsiveness to hold up in a concert hall, a recording session, or […]

A violin is never just a violin once it has lived a life. The great instruments of the world, the ones that appear in auction catalogs and concert programs, almost always carry a name. That name is not decoration. It is a record. It tells you who owned the instrument, who played it, and sometimes […]

Ask any concertgoer to name the best violinist in the world and you will get a different answer every time. What almost everyone agrees on, though, is the shortlist: Itzhak Perlman, Anne Sophie Mutter, Leonidas Kavakos, Hilary Hahn, Giuseppe Gibboni, and a handful of rising stars who are redefining the instrument for a new generation. […]

Few names carry as much weight in twentieth century French bow making as Louis Morizot. Known to collectors and dealers simply as Morizot père, he built a workshop in Mirecourt that grew, through his five sons, into one of the most productive and respected ateliers in the history of the craft. For collectors and serious […]

If you’ve found a violin, viola, or cello at home with a label reading “Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis” tucked inside the body, your first reaction was probably somewhere between excitement and disbelief. It’s a common moment for instrument owners, especially those who inherited a violin from a relative or found one in storage. Before you assume […]

When collectors and musicians search for the best violin brands, what they are really looking for is trust: an assurance that the instrument they choose was built with skill, care, and proven materials. That trust does not come from a manufacturer’s logo. It comes from the maker who shaped the wood, tuned the plates, and […]

Venice holds a singular place in the history of the cello. Some of the most celebrated cellists of the past century like Pablo Casals, Yo-Yo Ma, Gautier Capuçon or  Daniel Müller-Schott, have built their careers on instruments built by Venetian cello makers, not Cremonese ones. Casals played a Goffriller for sixty years. Yo-Yo Ma’s primary […]