Maker Archive

Amati has over 11,000 makers listed in its archive, find the luthier you are after here.

Drawing on biographies by Meredith-Morris, Lutgendorff and Hart amongst others, it is like having a library at your fingertips.

Find out whether Amati contains an instrument by the maker you are after.

Amati has images of labels, photographs of instruments and other related information. Useful for the collector or expert.

We have hundreds of well-informed articles about different makers, full of contemporary research and scholarship.

Comment on the maker of your own violin - join the debate!