FBI's Art Crime Team in LA asks for public's help with a cold case in which a 1710 Amati violin was stolen from a home in the ...

Federal officials sought the public's assistance Thursday in locating a 1710 Amati violin stolen from a residence in the Los ...

The FBI’s Art Crime Team in Los Angeles has asked for the public’s help Friday with a cold case in which a 1710 Amati violin was stolen from a home in the Los Feliz area five years ago. The wooden ...

The 310-year-old violin, belonging to art dealer Rowland Weinstein, was stolen five years ago from his Los Feliz home.

This rare 1710 Amati violin was stolen Dec. 8 from outside a Los Feliz home. (Photo from Tarisio) The FBI is in hot pursuit this Christmas season of a thief who may have music on his mind: A rare ...

Middle bouts - 11.2 centimeters Lower bouts - 20.4 centimeters The LA Times said Hieronymus Amati, who crafted the violin, was "one of the most important violin makers in musical instrument history." ...

This violin was made by Nicolò Amati in Cremona, Italy in 1656. It is the King Loius XIV violin with a top of spruce with grain of narrow width, one-piece back of slab cut maple with medium width ...

Check out a $2 million maple-and-spruce violin from Reuning & Son Violins in Boston's Back Bay. It was handcrafted by Italian luthier Nicolò Amati in 1669.

Check out a $2 million maple-and-spruce violin from Reuning & Son Violins in Boston's Back Bay. It was handcrafted by Italian luthier Nicolò Amati in 1669.

Theories vary widely about what makes Amati, Stradivari and Guarneri violins, violas and cellos so great, but those who play the 16th, 17th and 18th century instruments are united in their wonderment.

Last year, Barton returned the violin to the Stradivari Society, which in turn lent it to 21-year-old German violinist Daniel Roehn, who lives in Munich and considers the Amati the best instrument ...