Your Invitation to Membership in
The Amati Society
The Amati Society
The Amati Society was created by the Trustees of the
National Music Museum to recognize and thank our friends and members who have
included the Museum in their estate plans.
The three generations of the Amati family were chosen
as the symbol of
this group, not only because their superb instruments, such as Girolamo Amati's piccolo violin (1613) shown here, have delighted so
many people over the years, but also because they represent the enduring
quality that is the National Music Museum. It was in the workshop
of Andrea Amati in Cremona, Italy, in the 1560s, that the form of the
instruments of the modern violin family first crystallized.
Today, of the dozen or so Andrea Amati instruments
known to survive, the
Museum proudly exhibits the only quartet of his instruments to be found in
any one location.
Membership in The Amati Society is available to those
who name America's National Music Museum in their estate plans in one
or more of the following ways:
including
a bequest for the benefit of the Museum in your will or
trust
participating in a life income arrangement or a charitable remainder
trust
creating a charitable lead trust for the benefit of the Museum
naming the Museum as the beneficiary of a retirement plan or a life
insurance policy
For more information about how you can become a member
of The Amati
Society, please write or call the Office of the Director of the Museum at
the address below.
National Music Museum
The University of South Dakota
414 East Clark Street
Vermillion, SD 57069
Phone: (605) 677-5306
Fax: (605) 677-6995
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