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Though listed in many reference books as one of Stradivari's earliest instruments, the modern consensus is that it is not a Stradivarius; it was sold at Sotheby's New York on 3 February 1982 as "an interesting violin". [11] Canadian: 1668 Sold at Kenneth Warren & Son in Chicago (1991). [12] [13] Golden Bell: ca.1668 Played by Simone Zgraggen. [14]
The Stradivarius instruments are famous for the quality of sound they produce. However, the many blind experiments from 1817 [38] [39] to as recent as 2014 [40] [41] [11] have never found any difference in sound between Stradivari's violins and high-quality violins in comparable style of other makers and periods, nor has acoustic analysis.
The Viotti; ex-Bruce Stradivarius of 1709 is an antique violin constructed by luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona (1644–1737). It is one of only 700 known extant Stradivari instruments. The violin receives its name from its first known owner, violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti , who is said to have received it as a love token from Catherine ...
The company bought Stradivarius in 1999, a youthful female fashion brand. ... Canada, Germany, Poland, Saudi Arabia and several South American countries received ...
The Lipinski Stradivarius is an antique violin constructed in 1715 by the Italian [1] luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, during Stradivari's "golden period" between 1700 and 1725. There are fewer than 650 extant Stradivarius violins in the world today, and the Lipinski is considered to be a particularly fine example. [ 2 ]
The Ames Stradivarius of 1734 is an antique violin, made by the Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. It is one of only 450–700 known extant Stradivarius instruments in the world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Ames is named for violinist George Ames who owned it and performed with it in the late nineteenth century.
A Stradivarius is a violin made by the Stradivari family. Stradivarius may also refer to: Stradivarius (clothing brand), a Spanish clothing fashion brand; Stradivarius (horse) (born 2014), British-trained racehorse; Stradivarius (record label), an Italian record label; Stradivarius, 1935 German film
The latter explanation is supported by the word Cremonensis (of Cremona) on many of Stradivari's labels, which suggests that he was born in the city instead of merely moving back there to work. [12] Antonio was born in 1644, a fact deducible from later violins. [13]