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The record for the biggest sum paid for a musical instrument at auction remains with the “Lady Blunt” Stradivarius, made in 1721, which fetched $15.9 million in 2011.

The record for the biggest sum paid for a musical instrument at auction remains with the "Lady Blunt" Stradivarius, made in 1721, which fetched $15.9 million in 2011.

The most expensive Stradivarius violin sold for $15.9 million in 2011. That violin was known as the "Lady Blunt" and was made in 1721.

Among violins sold publicly at auction, the record is held by the so-called "Lady Blunt" Stradivarius, once owned by the granddaughter of Lord Byron, which sold in 2011 for $15.9 million.

In 2011, another Stradivarius, the "Lady Blunt," which was made in 1721, was named by Guinness World Records as the most expensive instrument when it sold for $15.9 million.

A Stradivarius violin made in 1714 was sold for $11.25 million by the Sotheby’s auction house Friday, establishing a scholarship fund at the New England Conservatory of Music.

The auction record for a musical instrument is the 1721 “Lady Blunt” Stradivarius violin. It sold in an online auction for 15.9 million dollars (£9.5 million) in 2011.

A rare Stradivarius violin, made over 300 years ago by Antonio Stradivari during his so-called golden period, fetched $11.3 million at auction in New York on Friday, Sotheby's said.