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 ...
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 ...
They can exceed prices of €18 million and are played by stars like Anne-Sophie Mutter and David Garrett. But how do you even get your hands on Stradivarius and Guarneri violins ? A radiant, ...
A violin which was made almost three centuries ago has been sold at auction in New York for $9.44 million (£7.71 million). Made in 1731 by acclaimed Italian luthier, Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri ‘del ...
COLLEGE STATION, Nov. 29, 2006 -- Answering a question that has lingered for centuries, a team of scientists has proved that chemicals used to treat the wood used in Stradivarius and Guarneri violins ...
The material used by the old masters to make exquisite violins may have been chemically manipulated. Whether or not the great Italian violin-makers used wood that had been chemically processed in ...