Claremont luthier finds love and craft in the shape of a violin
JB Violins is tucked into a small building off Alley 38, just south of West Bonita Avenue in Claremont. One might expect its ...
$100 million coin collection, buried for decades, up for auction
The vast coin collection, much of which was buried underground for more than 50 years, is expected to fetch in excess of $100 ...
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Trying out Modern Cremonese Violins at Metzler Violin Shop
Unless you live in Italy, it's a bit of a rare thing to have 50 brand-new Cremonese violins, violas and cellos all under one roof, waiting for you to try out. But that has been the case for the last ...
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Trees, Singing and Silent
Inscribed on the nameboard of an ottavino spinet (a small tabletop, or even laptop, harpsichord) dated 1710 and now in the Russell Collection of musical ...
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10 of Felix Mendelssohn’s greatest works
From Mendelssohn’s Elijah to his Scottish Symphony, here are some of the early Romantic composer’s most glorious pieces of ...
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1715 Stradivarius sold for $23 million becomes most expensive violin in history
The 1715 ‘Baron Knoop’, hailed for its quality, volume and articulation, was crafted during Stradivari’s ‘golden period’. Previous owner, US collector David L. Fulton, had bought the violin in ...
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1715 Strad Violin Sells for Record-Breaking $23 Million
March 11, 2025, 1:06 PM · The 1715 "Baron Knoop" Stradivari violin has sold for $23,000,000, shattering the previous price record set in 2011, when the 1721 "Lady Blunt" Stradivari violin was sold by ...