This Lu-Mi instrument is a violin after Nicola Amati circa 1649. Amati violins have an especially fine and sweet tone for baroque music performances.

The Nicola Amati model comes in standard and master quality. The master quality violin has decorative inlay on the back and English style decoration on the belly. The fingerboard and tailpiece are ebony over maple in the deluxe model and maple only in the standard model. Carved scroll and pegboxes and/or dragon heads are available as well as antique varnish.