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 ...

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

It’s not often a violin evokes a Renaissance polymath, but one French auction house is touting such a fiddle. The centuries-old stringed instrument, which will go under the gavel at Aguttes this June, ...

After Ma referred Jenson to the violin maker, Zygmuntowicz fashioned an instrument for her based on a Guarneri model. The result thrilled Jenson -- with reservations. She played the violin for years ...

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 ...

COLLAGE STATION, Texas, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say have proven chemicals used to treat the wood in Stradivarius and Guarneri violins are responsible for the instruments' famous sound. Texas ...

Grammy award-winning violinist Joshua Bell discusses what it feels like to play a Guarneri del Gesù violin once owned by composer Henri Vieuxtemps Progressive Art Laboratory In the rarified world of ...

A radiant, otherworldly sound, unique and inimitable: the legendary 18th-century Italian violin-maker Antonio Stradivari knew how to enchant the musical world with violin tones. Whether it is the ...

Both Stradivari and Guarneri wanted to treat their violins to prevent worms from eating away the wood. They used some chemical agents to protect the wood from worm infestations of the time, and the ...

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