The General Kyd Stradivarius is a cello crafted in 1684 by Antonio Stradivari, currently valued at $3.5 million.^[1][2] It was stolen off the porch of Peter Stumpf in 2004.^[2] Antonio Stradivari, by Edgar Bundy, 1893: a romanticized image of a craftsman-hero One of the violins in the Stradivarius collection of the Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain A Stradivarius (or Strad) is a stringed instrument built by members of the Stradivari family, especially by Antonio Stradivari. ... The violoncello, almost always abbreviated to cello, or cello (the c is pronounced as the ch in cheese), is a bowed stringed instrument, the lowest-sounding member of the violin family. ... Events France under Louis XIV makes Truce of Ratisbon separately with the Empire and Spain. ... Antonio Stradivari examining an instrument, in a Romantic 19th-century print. ... Theft (also known as stealing) is, in general, the wrongful taking of someone elses property without that persons willful consent. ... shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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