Michael [SI/AI Thread Comments]
Hi Jim, with the days of the Amati thread rapidly approaching what appears to be an end point, I humbly accept your Gold Medal Award and wish to thank you for all the insight and information you have so generously provided for nearly 2 years.
Just too bad Jonah was eaten by the Whale. I leave far richer in "astronomical websites", musical tunes to sing Amati's praises to, imagined luncheons in Italy, and having conversed with a "real rocket scientist".
P.S.Can you speed up when we see those new pictures of Mars? The suspense is killing me.
The next tune may have to be to Auld Lang Syne,
Michael
I don't see any reason for this thread to end.
I would like to see it continue as a DSL, Communications, High Tech, Emerging Technology thread. We have a great group of people. We know who to trust, who does valuable research worth it's weight in Gold.
Why start somewhere else? Hidden under Amati Investors, we can maintain our ongoing research with an excellent group of participants,
who seem quite content sharing excellent information.
The name Amati was chosen by Cioffi, as people close to him had said
he created an Amati. An Amati is a violin of excellent quality and heritage.
The finest violins, violas and cellos by makers such as Antonio Stradivari and Joseph Guarneri del Gesu presently sell in the millions of dollars each. These instruments have never been so far out of reach for top artists as they are today, due to immense price increases over the past few years. The epoch of great violin making in Cremona (the city of Amati, Guarneri, and Stradivari) reached its zenith during the
eighteenth century, truly an accomplishment which ranks as one of the wonders of the world. The technology of this making has been lost since that time. The tonal qualities of these instruments are so splendid that a top string player cannot reach the highest spiritual level of music without one. The best of these instruments are almost living entities, being so magical in the richness and tonal colors of sound they produce.
September 3 is the birth anniversary of Nicol• Amati, the scion
of the Italian family of violin makers for whom the Amati violin is
named. Nicol•'s great uncle Andrea founded the Cremona school of violin making, but it was Nicol• who attained great fame as a maker of superb instruments and a teacher of other violin-making greats. We remember Nicol• Amati with a look at others whose names are memorialized in their instruments.
usd.edu
Violino piccolo by Antonio and Girolamo Amati, Cremona, 1613. One of three Cremonese instruments known to have survived in original condition. The size of the neck and scroll suggest that this is not a child's instrument.
Ex. coll.: Andrew Fountaine. Witten-Rawlins Collection, 1984.
Among the many makers bearing the Amati name, the following are outstanding:
Andrea (Cremona, Italy, 1525-1611) is known as the founder of the great Cremonese school of violin making. Before he turned to making violins, he was making viols and rebecs. Instruments dated after 1584 are said to be the work of his sons Antonius and Hieronymus, and instruments known to be by Andrea are not numerous. It is claimed that he made 24 violins, 6 violas, and 8 cellos for Charles IX of France to be used at the court of Versailles, a few of which survive.
Genie Wie, who is using the exceptional Nicolo Amati violin c. 1635, recently took this fine instrument to Rice University in Texas, where she was one of only ten students selected to study with world renowned violinist Sergiu Luca. A veteran of Betty Haag's distinguished Suzuki Academy, Genie has performed for dignitaries all over the world including Pope John Paul II! She has toured the world over as well as winning numerous young artists competitions, and will no doubt be putting the Amati to good use in the future.
The same should be said of this thread.
JW@KSC
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