Saturday, November 21, 2009

Famous violin


Stradivari, Cremona, 1708, 'Regent'

In a letter of 1840 the Belgian virtuoso Charles de Beriot wrote to the Parisian luthier Gand praising this instrument for its sound and quality, and in Herbert Goodkind's iconography of Antonio Stradivari it is given the well deserved extra title of "The Superb".

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