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===Nicolò Amati===
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'''Nicolò Amati''' (3 December 1596{{snd}}12 April 1684) was the son of Girolamo Amati. Often considered the most eminent violin maker of the family,<ref>{{Cite news |title=The sweet sound of nightingales |url=https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2009/12/17/the-sweet-sound-of-nightingales |access-date=2024-06-26 |newspaper=The Economist |issn=0013-0613}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Violin Makers of the Amati Family |url=https://www.si.edu/spotlight/violins/amati |access-date=2024-06-26 |website=Smithsonian Institution |language=en}}</ref> he improved the model adopted by the rest of the Amatis and produced instruments capable of yielding greater power of [[timbre|tone]].<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Amati|volume=1|page=783}}</ref> His pattern was unusually small, but he also made a wider model now known as the "Grand Amati", which have become his most sought-after violins.

Of his pupils, the most famous were [[Antonio Stradivari]] and [[Andrea Guarneri]],<ref name="EB1911"/> the first of the Guarneri family of violin makers. (There is much controversy regarding the apprenticeship of Antonio Stradivari.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The life of Nicolò Amati, part 2 |url=https://tarisio.com/cozio-archive/cozio-carteggio/the-life-of-nicolo-amati-part-2/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=Tarisio |language=en-US}}</ref> While the label on Stradivari's first known violin states that he was a pupil of Amati, the validity of his statement is questioned.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Antonio Stradivari |url=https://amati.com/maker/stradivari-antonio/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=Amati Instruments Ltd |language=en-GB}}</ref>