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Outside the United States, makers of musical saws include Bahco, makers of the limited edition Stradivarius, [9] Alexis in France, [10] Feldmann [11] and Stövesandt [12] in Germany, Music Blade in Greece and Thomas Flinn & Company in the United Kingdom, [13] based in Sheffield, who produce three different sized musical saws, as well as ...
[9] [citation needed] The October 2010 auction, which included the 1697 Molitor Stradivarius, was, at the time, the highest-grossing violin auction in history, with over $9 million in sales. [10] In September 2012 the company announced its acquisition of Cozio, the world's largest online archive of musical instruments. [11]
Purchased by Felix M. Warburg circa 1926 as part of a quartet set for the Institute of Musical Art's Musical Art Quartet, played by Sascha Jacobsen. [142] [143] Ex Adolf Busch: 1716 Owned by David Garrett since 2010. Berthier: 1716 Baron Vecsey de Vecse Fondazione Pro Canale [144] On loan to Anna Tifu [145] Booth: 1716 Nippon Music Foundation [22]
Antonio Stradivari, by Edgar Bundy, 1893: a romanticized image of a craftsman-hero. A Stradivarius is one of the string instruments, such as violins, violas, cellos, and guitars, crafted by members of the Stradivari family, particularly Antonio Stradivari (Latin: Antonius Stradivarius), in Cremona, Italy, during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Baron Johann Knoop (22 July 1846 in Moscow – 9 May 1918 in Wadhurst), was a collector of musical instruments who possessed a total of 29 great violins, violas, and cellos at one time or another including some four Stradivari violas. Several instruments are named after him: Baron Knoop Stradivarius (1698) Alard-Baron Knoop Stradivarius (1715)
The Gibson ex-Huberman Stradivarius of 1713 is an antique violin made by Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. The Gibson , while owned by Bronisław Huberman , was stolen twice. The first time it was returned shortly afterwards.
Barjansky was the previous owner when the Cremonese cello came up for auction at Sotheby's in 1983. It sold for a record price to British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber whose previous instrument was a Guadagnini of the 1700s. The purchase price was undisclosed. [2] A comparable "Strad" (the "de Pawle") sold around that time for $650,000 in New ...
John Juzek (né Janek Jůzek, aka Jan, aka Johann;1892, Písek – c. 1965, Luby) was a Czech merchant, widely known in North America as an exporter of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses made and labeled under his anglicized name, "John Juzek," crafted mostly by guilds and various independent makers in the Bohemia region of the Czechoslovakia and Germany border.