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Antonio Stradivari, by Edgar Bundy, 1893: a romanticized image of a craftsman-hero
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
One of the violins in the Stradivarius collection of the Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain

A Stradivarius is a stringed instrument built by members of the Stradivari family, especially by Antonio Stradivari. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... Image File history File links Stradshp. ... Image File history File links Stradshp. ... Romantics redirects here. ... Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1169 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1169 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Palacio Real de Madrid The Palacio Real de Madrid (Royal Palace of Madrid) is the official residence of the King of Spain, located in the Spanish capital of Madrid. ... This article is about the Spanish capital. ... A string instrument (also stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. ... Antonio Stradivari (1644? - December 18, 1737) was an Italian luthier (maker of violins and other stringed instruments), the most prominent member of that profession. ... Antonio Stradivari examining an instrument, in a Romantic 19th-century print. ...


Antonio Stradivari was born in Italy in 1644. He was a disciple of Nicolo Amati, of the Amati family of violin makers of Cremona. Antonio set up business for himself in 1680, though his early violins are generally considered inferior to those made between 1698 and 1720. While many of his techniques are still not fully understood by modern science, it is known for sure that the wood used included spruce for the harmonic top, willow for the internal parts and maple for the back, strip and neck, and that the wood was treated with several types of minerals, including potassium borate (borax), sodium and potassium silicate, and bianca (a varnish composed of Arabic gum, honey and egg white). Amati is the name of a family of Italian violin-makers, who flourished at Cremona from about 1550 to 1740. ... This article is about the Amati family of luthiers. ... A luthier is someone who builds or repairs stringed instruments, ranging from guitars to violins. ... Cremona is a city in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left shore of the Po river in the middle of the Pianura padana (Po valley). ... Species About 35; see text. ... Species About 350, including: Salix acutifolia - Violet Willow Salix alaxensis - Alaska Willow Salix alba - White Willow Salix alpina - Alpine Willow Salix amygdaloides - Peachleaf Willow Salix arbuscula - Mountain Willow Salix arbusculoides - Littletree Willow Salix arctica - Arctic Willow Salix atrocinerea Salix aurita - Eared Willow Salix babylonica - Peking Willow Salix bakko Salix barrattiana... For other uses, see Maple (disambiguation). ... Borax from Persian burah. ...


A Stradivarius made in the 1680s or during Stradivari's Brescian period from 1690-1700, could be worth several hundred thousand dollars or more at today's prices in auction. If made during Stradivari's "golden period" from 1700 to 1720, depending on condition, the instrument can be worth several million. They rarely come up for sale and the highest price paid for a Stradivarius (or any musical instrument) at public auction was The Hammer, made in 1707, which sold for US $3,544,000 on May 16, 2006. Private sales of Stradivari instruments have exceeded this price.[1][2] The world's only complete set of Stradivarius instruments (string quintet) belongs to the Spanish Government and consists of two violins, two cellos, and a viola. They are exhibited in the Music Museum at the Palacio Real de Madrid. Another significant assemblage is the York Gate Collections of the Royal Academy of Music in London. The Hammer Stradivarius is an antique violin made by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737) of Cremona. ... is the 136th day of the year (137th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Anne Rice novel, see Violin (novel). ... This article is about the stringed musical instrument. ... The viola (French, alto; German Bratsche) is a bowed string instrument. ... Palacio Real de Madrid The Palacio Real de Madrid (Royal Palace of Madrid) is the official residence of the King of Spain, located in the Spanish capital of Madrid. ... York Gate Collections at the Royal Academy of Music is a museum of musical instruments and artefacts in London, England, open to the public free of charge seven days a week. ... The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) is a constituent college of the University of London, and is one of the worlds leading music institutions. ...


Many people will find violins labeled or branded as "Stradivarius", and believe them to be genuine. It is believed that there are fewer than 700 genuine extant instruments, very few of which are unaccounted for.


The fame of Stradivari's violins is not a modern phenomenon: the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is supposed to have owned a Stradivarius with a description of how he purchased the instrument for fifty-five English shillings in the story, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box. Another famous story is about Duport Stradivarius which is said to have the spur marks from the boots of Emperor Napoléon I of France when he tried his hand at playing it. They also played an important role in the James Bond film The Living Daylights. A portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine, 1891 Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. ... This article is about coinage. ... The Adventure of the Cardboard Box is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ... The Duport Stradivarius is a violoncello made in 1711 by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. ... Bonaparte as general, by Antoine-Jean Gros. ... 007 redirects here. ... For other uses, see The Living Daylights (disambiguation). ...


One aspect of Stradivari's approach is illustrated in the BBC TV series Lovejoy, in the episode "Second Fiddle". It is noted that one would expect the 'f'-holes in the front of a violin to be symmetrical yet, in Stradivaria, they are often slightly offset. This is put down to him being less of a perfectionist than tradition would credit but, if true, may express a preference for an aural aesthetic over a visual. There are other articles with similar names; see Lovejoy (disambiguation). ...


The reputation of the Stradivarius is such that its name is frequently invoked as a standard of excellence in other unrelated fields (such as ships and cars); for example, the Bath Iron Works' unofficial motto is "A Bath boat is the Stradivarius of destroyers!". Bath Iron Works from NAS Brunswick photo gallery Bath Iron Works (BIW) is a shipyard located on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine. ... USS McFaul underway in the Atlantic Ocean. ...


In 1924, The Vincent Bach Corporation began releasing a line of trumpets. Due to their amazing quality, people started calling them Stradivarius Trumpets, in honor of the strings of the same name. The Vincent Bach Corporation was an American manufacturer of brass musical instruments. ... Trumpeter redirects here. ... In 1924, the Vincent Bach Corporation produced its first trumpets. ...

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Theories and reproduction attempts

A Stradivarius in a Berlin museum
A Stradivarius in a Berlin museum

These instruments are famous for the quality of their sound. There have been many failed attempts to explain and reproduce the sound quality. One idea was that Stradivari used wood from an old cathedral to build his instruments, but tree-ring dating has shown this to be false. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 214 × 598 pixelsFull resolution (784 × 2192 pixel, file size: 246 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 214 × 598 pixelsFull resolution (784 × 2192 pixel, file size: 246 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The growth rings of an unknown tree species, at Bristol Zoo, England Pinus taeda Cross section showing annual rings, Cheraw, South Carolina Pine stump showing growth rings Dendrochronology or tree-ring dating is the method of scientific dating based on the analysis of tree-ring growth patterns. ...


Another theory is the idea that very, very old wood from the "little ice age" was used to construct Stradivari's instruments. This theory bases itself upon the high density of this wood; some consider it 'ideal' for making stringed instruments. Trees that grew during this freezing period contained tree rings which were closer together and denser than would be produced in more temperate conditions.[3]


A National Geographic article provided further basis for the "ice age theory", simply by examining Stradivari's instruments and noticing that many of them had very dense rings in the wood.[4] Some believe that a special wood glue was used in Stradivari's instruments, partly accounting for the high quality of the sound. The National Geographic Society was founded in the USA on January 27, 1888, by 33 men interested in organizing a society for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge. ...


While the sound of Stradivari's instruments still has not been fully explained by modern research tools, devices such as the scanning laser vibrometer are aiding researchers in testing the theory that the careful shaping of belly and back plate, in order to "tune" their resonant frequencies, may be an important factor.[5]


It was reported in late March 2001 that Joseph Nagyvary, a biochemist at Texas A&M University, succeeded in making a violin somewhere near the quality of a Stradivarius by leaving the wood in sea water for a period of time.[6] Due to lack of land space in Venice, in former times, imported wood was often stored in water in the Venice Lagoon, where a type of rotting affected it slightly. He managed to get hold of some wood shavings from a Stradivarius violin, and under a microscope he found that in that wood the natural filter plates in the pores between the tracheids had disappeared. He also, reportedly, treated the wood with borax. A biochemist is a scientist trained and dedicated to producing results in the discipline of biochemistry. ... Texas A&M University redirects here. ... For other uses, see Venice (disambiguation). ... The Venetian Lagoon The Venetian Lagoon or the Venetian Riviera is a lagoon off the Adriatic Sea in which the city of Venice is situated. ... Decomposition is the reduction of bodies and other formerly living organisms into simpler forms of matter; and most particularly to the fate of the body, after death. ... This article is about the use of a razor. ... Robert Hookes microscope (1665) - an engineered device used to study living systems. ... For other uses, see Wood (disambiguation). ... A pore, in general, is some form of opening, usually very small. ... Tracheids are elongated cells in the xylem of vascular plants, serving in the transport of water. ... Borax from Persian burah. ...


By late 2003, Nagyvary had refined his techniques and produced a violin that was tested in a duel between it and a top-tier Stradivarius.[7] Both violins were played in each of four selections of music. World-class violinist Dalibor Karvay performed behind a screen to an audience of 600 (including 160 trained musicians and 303 regular concert attendees). This was the first public comparison of a great Stradivari with a new violin in front of a large audience. The audience cast ballots for the violins' tone qualities and projection. The results indicated that Nagyvary's instrument surpassed the Stradivarius by a small margin in each category.

Stradivari Instruments

Violins

Sobriquet Year Provenance Notes
ex-Back 1666 Royal Academy of Music Currently displayed as part of Royal Academy's York Gate Collection
Dubois 1667 Canimex Foundation on loan to Alexandre Dacosta [8]
Aranyi 1667 Eric Franklyn Geibel (collector); sold at Sotheby's London, 12 November 1986 [9]
ex-Captain Saville 1667 Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume;
Captain Saville (1901-1907)
Amatese 1668 Though listed in many reference books as one of Stradivari's earliest instruments, the modern consensus is that it is not a Stradivari; it was sold Sotheby's New York 3 February 1982 as "an interesting violin." [10]
Oistrakh 1671 David Oistrakh missing: stolen in 1996 [11]
Sellière 1672 Charles IV of Spain;
Spanish 1677 Finnish Cultural Foundation on loan to Elina Vähälä [12]
Hellier 1679 Sir Samuel Hellier Smithsonian Institution
Paganini-Desaint 1680 Nippon Music Foundation [13] this violin along with the Paganini-Comte Cozio di Salabue violin of 1727, the Paganini-Mendelssohn viola 1731, and Paganini-Ladenburg cello of 1731, comprise a group of instruments referred to as The Paganini Quartet; on loan to Kikuei Ikeda of the Tokyo String Quartet
Fleming 1681 Stradivari Society on loan to Cecily Ward [14]
Chanot-Chardon 1681 Timothy Baker;
Joshua Bell		 Shaped like a guitar
Bucher 1683
Cipriani Potter 1683
Cobbett; ex-Holloway 1683
ex-Arma Senkrah 1685
ex-Castelbarco 1685
Goddard 1686 Owned by Miss Goddard[15] It is currently owned by Antonio Fortunato (Montrose, Scotland)[15]
Ole Bull 1687 Ole Bull (1844);
Dr. Herbert Axelrod (1985-1997)		 Donated to the Smithsonian Institute in 1997 by Axelrod
Mercur-Avery 1687 on loan to Jonathan Carney, concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since 2002
Auer 1689 Stradivari Society on loan to Vadim Gluzman [14]
Arditi 1689 Dextra musica AS, Norway on loan to Elise Båtnes, concertmaster, Oslo Philharmonic
Baumgartner 1689 Canada Council for the Arts [16]
Bingham 1690
Bennett 1692 Winterthur-Versicherungen on loan to Hanna Weinmeister
Falmouth 1692 on loan to Leonidas Kavakos
Gould 1693 George Gould
Metropolitan Museum of Art		 bequethed by Gould to the Metropolitan Museum in 1955[17]
Baillot-Pommerau 1694
Ruston 1694 Royal Academy of Music on loan to Clio Gould[18]
Fetzer 1695 Stradivari Society on loan to Ruggero Allifranchini [14]
Cabriac 1698
Baron Knoop 1698 one of eleven Stradivari violins associated with Baron Johann Knoop
Joachim 1698 Royal Academy of Music
Duc de Camposelice 1699
Lady Tennant 1699 on loan to Yang Liu; sold at Christie's auction US$2.032 million, April 2005 [19]
Longuet 1699
Countess Polignac 1699 on loan to Gil Shaham.
Castelbarco 1699
Kustendyke 1699 Royal Academy of Music
Crespi 1699 Royal Academy of Music
Cristiani 1700
Dragonetti 1700 Nippon Music Foundation
Jupiter 1700 Giovanni Battista Viotti
Taft; ex-Emil Heermann 1700 Canada Council for the Arts on loan to Jessica Linnebach [16]
Dushkin 1701 on loan to Dennis Kim, concertmaster, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
Markees 1701 Music Chamber on loan to Leung Kin-fung
Irish 1702 OKO Bank, Finland on loan to Réka Szilvay
Conte di Fontana; ex-Oistrach 1702 David Oistrakh (1953-1963); Riccardo Brengola; Massimo Quarta Oistrakh's first violin
Lukens-Edler Voicu 1702 Romanian state on loan to the Ion Voicu foundation; ownership disputed between the state of Romania and the "Ion Voicu" foundation.
King Maximilian Joseph 1702 Stradivari Society on loan to Berent Korfker [14]
Lyall 1702 Stradivari Society on loan to Stefan Milenkovich [14]
La Rouse Boughton 1703 Österreichische Nationalbank [20] on loan to Boris Kuschnir of the Kopelman Quartet
Lord Newlands 1702 Nippon Music Foundation on loan to Toru Yasunaga
Allegretti 1703
Alsager 1703
Lady Harmsworth 1703 Paul Bartel, Cincinnati, OH
Emiliani 1703 Anne-Sophie Mutter
Betts 1704 U.S. Library of Congress
Sleeping Beauty 1704 L-Bank Baden-Wurttemberg On loan to Isabelle Faust. One of the few Stradivari violins to have retained original neck.
ex-Marsick; ex-Oistrach 1705 David Oistrach acquired in trade by Oistrach for the 1702 Conte di Fontana
ex-Brüstlein 1707 Österreichische Nationalbank[21]
La Cathédrale 1707 Stradivari Society on loan to Tamaki Kawakubo [14]
Hammer 1707 Christian Hammer (collector) on loan to Kyoko Takezawa; sold at Christie's New York on 16 May 2006 for a record US$3,544,000 (€2,765,080) after five minutes of bidding. [1][2]
Burstein Bagshawe 1708 Stradivari Society on loan to Janice Martin [14]
Huggins 1708 Nippon Music Foundation on loan to Sergey Khachatryan [22]
Ruby 1708 Stradivari Society on loan to Leila Josefowicz and Vadim Repin [14]
Berlin Hochschule 1709
Hammerle; ex-Adler 1709 Österreichische Nationalbank on loan to Werner Hink
Ernst 1709 on loan to Zsigmondy Dénes through 2003
Engleman 1709 Nippon Music Foundation on loan to Lisa Batiashvili
Viotti; ex-Bruce 1709 Royal Academy of Music purchased in 2005 for GB£3.5 million
Marie Hall 1709 Giovanni Battista Viotti;
The Chi-Mei Collection		 named after violinist, Marie Hall
ex-Kempner 1709 on loan to Soovin Kim
Camposelice 1710 Nippon Music Foundation on loan to Kyoko Takezawa
Lord Dunn-Raven 1710 Anne-Sophie Mutter
ex-Roederer 1710 on loan to David Grimal.
ex-Vieuxtemps 1710 on loan to Samuel Magad, concertmaster, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Earl of Plymouth; Kreisler 1711 Los Angeles Philharmonic[23] In 1925, found in store room on the estate of the Earl of Plymouth (along with "The Messiah" and "Alard" violins). Purchased by Fritz Kreisler in 1928 and subsequently sold by him in 1946 [24]
Liegnitz 1711
Karpilowsky 1712 Harry Solloway missing: stolen in 1953 from Solloway's residence in Los Angeles
Boissier 1713
Gibson; ex-Huberman 1713 Bronislaw Huberman;
Joshua Bell		 stolen twice before Bell's acquisition
Lady Ley 1713 Stradivarius family now bought by Jue Yao - chinese violinist
Dolphin; Delfino 1714 Jascha Heifetz;
Nippon Music Foundation		 on loan to Akiko Suwanai
Soil 1714 Itzhak Perlman
ex-Berou; ex-Thibaud 1714
Le Maurien 1714 missing: stolen 2002 [25]
Leonora Jackson 1714
Sinsheimer; General Kyd; Perlman 1714 Itzhak Perlman
David L. Fulton
Smith-Quersin 1714 Österreichische Nationalbank on loan to Rainer Honeck
Alard-Baron Knoop 1715
Baron Knoop; ex-Bevan 1715
ex-Bazzini 1715
Cremonese; ex-Harold Joachim 1715 Municipality of Cremona
Joachim 1715 Nippon Music Foundation on loan to Sayaka Shoji
Lipinski 1715 missing: stolen in 1962
ex-Marsick 1715 on loan to James Ehnes
Titian 1715 Jacob Lynam
Cessole 1716
Berthier 1716
Booth 1716 Nippon Music Foundation on loan to Shunsuke Sato; formerly loaned to Arabella Steinbacher; formerly loaned to Julia Fischer
Colossus 1716 missing: stolen 1998 [25]
Monasterio 1716 Cyrus Forough
Provigny 1716
Messiah-Salabue 1716 Ashmolean Museum Oxford on exhibit at the Oxford Ashmolean Museum
ex-Windsor-Weinstein; Fite 1716 Canada Council for the Arts on loan to Jean-Sébastien Roy [16]
Baron Wittgenstein 1716 on loan to Mincio Mincev
Gariel 1717
ex-Wieniawski 1717
Sasserno 1717 Nippon Music Foundation on loan to Viviane Hagner
Viotti; ex-Rosé 1718 Giovanni Battista Viotti;
Österreichische Nationalbank		 on loan to Volkhard Steude
Firebird; ex-Saint Exupéry 1718 Salvatore Accardo Its name is taken from the colouration of the varnish and its brilliant sound.
Marquis de Riviere 1718 Daniel Majeske played by Majeske while concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1969-1993.
San Lorenzo 1718 Talbot Aachen on loan to David Garrett
Lauterbach 1719 L. L. McLeod, Henryk Grohman?, M. Pommereul?, Johann Christoph Lauterbach, J. B Vuillaume, Charles Philippe Lafont , Gen. Michael Oginski? (The Hill diaries supposedly record the Lauterbach Stradivari as being in possession of "Herr Grohmann", of Łódź, 1913.)[26][citation needed] missing?: stolen?: recovered?: Documents (Publication M1949-microfilm roll #20-PO52) relating to the disappearance and supposed recovery of this Stradivari have been obtained from the NARA facility, College Park, Maryland records state that a 1719 Stradivari violin was given to the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland in 1939, according to the will of Mr. Henryk Grohman. M.F.A.A. records (dating to 1948) state, that, a Nazi SS Major, Theodor Blank, was suspected and accused of stealing a 1719 Stradivari from the National Museum in 1944. No concrete proof exists that Mr. Theodor Blank stole the violin, and no official record exists of the violin being repatriated to Poland. Until recently, no photographs of the missing Lauterbach Stradivari were known to exist.[citation needed]
Lautenschlager 1719 Gift of Dr. Maria Alois Lautenschlager to Old Berlin Hochschule fer Musik, 1943. Used by Dr. Gustave Havemann, violin teacher.[citation needed] Documents obtained from Berlin University archives reveal much controversy surrounding this instrument. Confiscated by Major Fadejew, Russian Army and taken from Berlin in 1945[citation needed]
Madrileño 1720
von Beckerath 1720 Michael Antonello
Red Mendelssohn 1720 Mendelssohn Family;
Elizabeth Pitcairn		 inspiration for the 1998 film, The Red Violin
Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis 1721 recovered in southern Germany in 2006
Lady Blunt 1721 Paolo Stradivari named after Lady Anne Blunt, daughter of Ada Lovelace, granddaughter of Lord Byron.
Jean-Marie Leclair 1721 Jean-Marie Leclair; on loan to Guido Rimonda [1]
Artot 1722
Jupiter; ex-Goding 1722 Nippon Music Foundation on loan to Daishin Kashimoto; formerly Midori Goto
Laub-Petschnikoff 1722
Jules Falk 1722 Viktoria Mullova
Elman 1722 Chi Mei Museum
Cádiz 1722 Joseph Fuchs on loan to Jennifer Frautschi; named after the city of Cádiz, Spain.
Kiesewetter 1723 Stradivari Society on loan to Stefan Jackiw. [14]
Earl Spencer 1723 loaned to Emmy Verhey
Le Sarastre 1724 Real Conservatorio Superior de Música, Madrid bequeathed to the Conservatory by Pablo de Sarasate; on loan to Chen Xi
Brancaccio 1725
Chaconne 1725 Österreichische Nationalbank on loan to Rainer Küchel
Wilhelmj 1725 Nippon Music Foundation on loan to Baiba Skride; one of several Stradivari violins with the sobriquet Wilhelmj
Greville; Kreisler; Adams 1726 Fritz Kreisler
Barrere 1727 Stradivari Society on loan to Janine Jansen [14]
Davidoff-Morini 1727 missing: stolen in 1995 [27]
ex-General Dupont 1727 on loan to Jennifer Koh
Holroyd 1727
Kreutzer 1727 Maxim Vengerov one of four Stradivari violins with the sobriquet Kreutzer (1701, 1720, 1731)
Hart; ex-Francescatti 1727 Salvatore Accardo
Paganini-Comte Cozio di Salabue 1727 Nippon Music Foundation this violin along with the Paganini-Desaint violin of 1680, the Paganini-Mendelssohn viola of 1731, and the Paganini-Ladenburg cello of 1736, comprise a group of instruments referred to as The Paganini Quartet; on loan to Martin Beaver of the Tokyo String Quartet
Halphen 1727 Angelika Prokopp Private Foundation on loan to Eckhard Seifert
Vesuvius 1727 Antonio Brosa
Remo Lauricella
Town of Cremona
A. J. Fletcher; Red Cross Knight 1728 A. J. Fletcher Foundation on loan to Nicholas Kitchen of the Borromeo String Quartet; the instrument was made by Omobono Stradivarius [28]
Artot-Alard 1728
Dragonetti; Milanollo 1728 Giovanni Battista Viotti on loan to Corey Cerovsek
Perkins 1728 Los Angeles Philharmonic named after Frederick Perkins, formerly owned by Luigi Boccherini[29]
Benny 1729 Jack Benny;
Los Angeles Philharmonic		 bequeathed to the Los Angeles Philharmonic by Jack Benny
Solomon, ex-Lambert 1729 Murray Lambert;
Seymour Solomon		 sold at Christie's, New York for US$2,728,000 (€2,040,000)
Innes 1729 on loan to Eugen Sarbu; previously loaned to Wieniawski
Guarneri 1729 Canada Council for the Arts on loan to Yi-Ja Suzanne Hou in 2003 [16][30]
Lady Jeanne 1731 Donald Kahn Foundation on loan to Benjamin Schmid
Heifetz-Piel 1731 Rudolph Piel;
Jascha Heifetz
Duke of Alcantara 1732 An obscure Spanish nobleman described as an aide-de-camp of King Don Carlos; UCLA Genevieve Vedder donated the instrument to the University of California at Los Angeles' (UCLA) music department in the 1960s. In 1967, the instrument was on loan to David Margetts who left the Stradivarius on the roof of his car and drove off or claimed it was stolen from his vehicle. For 27 years the violin was considered missing until it was recovered from an amateur violinist. A settlement was made and the Stradivarius was returned to UCLA in 1995.[31][32][33]
Herkules 1732 Eugène Ysaÿe missing: stolen in 1908 [25]
Tom Taylor 1732 previously loaned to Joshua Bell
Des Rosiers 1733 Angèle Dubeau
Huberman; Kreisler 1733 Bronislaw Huberman;
Fritz Kreisler
Khevenhüller 1733 Yehudi Menuhin
Rode 1733
Ames 1734 missing: stolen in the 1960s [25]
Baron Feititsch; Heermann 1734 Baron Feititzsch;
Hugo Heerman
Gidon Kremer
Habeneck 1734 Royal Academy of Music
Herkules; Ysaye; ex-Szeryng; King David 1734 Eugène Ysaÿe;
Charles Münch;
Henryk Szeryng;
State of Israel
Lord Amherst of Hackney 1734 Fritz Kreisler
Lamoreux 1735 missing: stolen[citation needed]
Muntz 1736 Nippon Music Foundation on loan to Arabella Steinbacher
Comte d'Amaille 1737
Lord Norton 1737
Chant du Cygne; Swan Song 1737 Ivry Gitlis

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Violas

There are thirteen known extant Stradivari violas.[34] The viola (French, alto; German Bratsche) is a bowed string instrument. ...

Sobriquet Year Provenance Notes
Tuscan-Medici 1690 Cosimo III de' Medici Commissioned by Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Currently on loan to the U.S. Library of Congress
Archinto 1696 Royal Academy of Music[4]
Ex Kux/Castelbarco 1714 Royal Academy of Music Converted from viol to viola by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume[35]
The Russian 1715 Russian State Collection
Cassavetti 1727 U.S. Library of Congress
Paganini-Mendelssohn 1731 Nippon Music Foundation this viola along with the Paganini-Desaint violin of 1680, the Paganini-Comte Cozio di Salabue violin of 1727, and the Paganini-Ladenburg cello of 1731, comprise a group of instruments referred to as The Paganini Quartet; on loan to Kazuhide Isomura of the Tokyo String Quartet

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Cellos

Antonio Stradivari built between 70 and 80 cellos in his lifetime, of which 63 are extant.

Sobriquet Year Provenance Notes
General Kyd; ex-Leo Stern 1684 Los Angeles Philharmonic On April 25, 2004, the instrument was stolen from the front porch of Peter Stumpf. and was later found in a garbage container by Melanie Stevens who planned to have it made into a CD shelf. It was returned when she saw a television report about the cello. [36][37][38]
Antonio Stradivaruis 1673 Jacqueline du Pré
Lynn Harrell
Barjanski 1690 Julian Lloyd Webber [39]
ex-Gendron; ex-Lord Speyer 1693 Kunststiftung NRW on loan to Maria Kliegel; previously loaned to Maurice Gendron (1958-1990)
Bonjour 1696 Abel Bonjour
Canada Council for the Arts		 on loan to Soo Bae [16]
Lord Aylesford 1696 Nippon Music Foundation on loan to Danjulo Ishizaka; previously loaned to Janos Starker (1950-1965)
Castelbarco 1697
Servais 1701 National Museum of American History on loan to Anner Bylsma;
Paganini-Countess of Stanlein 1707 Bernard Greenhouse
Markevitch; Delphino 1709 Royal Academy of Music
Gore Booth; Baron Rothschild 1710 Rocco Filippini
Duport 1711 Mstislav Rostropovich (1974-2007)
Mara 1711 Heinrich Schiff
Davydov 1712 Karl Davydov
Jacqueline du Pré		 on loan to Yo-Yo Ma.
Batta 1714 Alexander Batta
Gregor Piatigorsky
Becker 1719
Piatti 1720 Carlos Prieto
Cristiani 1720
Baudiot 1725 Gregor Piatigorsky
Chevillard 1725 Music Museum (Lisbon)
Marquis de Corberon; ex-Loeb 1726 Royal Academy of Music
De Munck; ex-Feuermann 1730 Emmanuel Feuermann
Aldo Parisot
Nippon Music Foundation		 on loan to Steven Isserlis [40][34]
Pawle 1730 Chi Mei Museum
Braga 1731
Paganini-Ladenburg 1736 Nippon Music Foundation this cello along with the Paganini-Desaint violin of 1686, the Paganini-Comte Cozio di Salabue violin of 1727, and the Paganini-Mendelssohn viola of 1731, comprise a group of instruments referred to as The Paganini Quartet; on loan to Clive Greensmith of the Tokyo String Quartet

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Guitars

There are two complete extant guitars by Stradivari, and a few fragments of others, including the neck of a third guitar which is owned by the Conservatoire de Musique in Paris.[41] These guitars have ten (doubled) strings, which was typical of the era. This article is about the capital of France. ...

Sobriquet Year Provenance Notes
Hill 1688 Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University[42]
Rawlins 1700 National Music Museum South Dakota [43]

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Harps

A number of sources claim that Stradivarius made only one harp in his life. It may be, however, that only one instrument has survived. Sources at the San Pietro a Maiella music conservatory in Naples, Italy, describe the arpettea (little harp) on display in their instrument museum as being the only surviving harp made by Stradivarius.[44] Documentation for the instrument says it was one of three. For other uses, see Harp (disambiguation). ...


Mandolins

There are two known surviving mandolins made by Stradivari:

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Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Stradivarius Violins (748 words)
In addition, thousands of violins have been made in tribute to Stradivari, copying his model and bearing labels that read "Stradivarius." Therefore, the presence of a Stradivarius label in a violin has no bearing on whether the instrument is a genuine work of Stradivari himself.
This inscription indicates the maker (Antonio Stradivari), the town (Cremona), and "made in the year," followed by a date that is either printed or handwritten.
The Herbert R. Axelrod Stradivarius Quartet of ornamented instruments is also housed in the NMAH collections.
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