Have you ever wondered what makes an old Italian violin sound so special? For centuries, musicians and scientists have puzzled over the unique qualities of instruments made by masters like Antonio ...

An exceptionally rare Guarneri violin—so fabled that it has its own name, the Baltic—sold for $9.44 million (premium included) at auction on March 16, just shy of its $10 million estimate. The final ...

When a Guarneri “del Gesù” violin known as the “Baltic” hits the auction block at Tarisio on March 15-16, bidders won’t be vying over its sound alone. “The Baltic is not just an instrument,” says ...

A rare violin is expected to fetch $10 million or more when it goes up for auction in mid-March, as demand from collectors intensifies, and tight supply keeps prices for certain instruments ...

A catalog and history (including comparative illustrations) of thirty Stradivarius and Guarnerius violins. The first 2 compact discs contain works performed on at least two different instruments; the ...

Finding a Guarneri violin is needle in a haystack stuff. Only about 150 are known to exist and rarely become available to collectors. As luck would have it, however, one such stringed instrument will ...

A rare, nearly 300-year-old violin that has been in the collection of the late businessman Sau-Wing Lam and exhibited twice at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will be auctioned at Tarisio ...

Musicians and music aficionados alike have long savored the rich sound quality of the violins created by Antonio Stradivari, particularly at the dawn of the 18th century (the so-called “golden period” ...

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