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Last week I received a phone call from someone, like many others who've phoned me, who found a Stradivarius violin! This kind of discovery can only be met by stumbling upon a fantastic lotto ticket. Or can it be?
Antonio Stradivari would be a violin, viola, cello, harp and guitar maker in Cremona, Italy. He was born in 1644 and died in 1737 and made over 1,100 instruments throughout his lifetime. He is renowned for his superb violins and his "violin formula" is just about the ideal design model for violin makers for more than 250 years. Famous violinists such as Itzak Perlman, Joshua Bell and Issac Stern experience Stradivarius violins that are loaned to them by rich benefactors or museum societies.
Stradivarius violins have in love with auction for between $50,000 to $3,000,000 (you heard right, three million dollars). You can observe why people obtain a bit looking forward to unearthing this type of promising treasure, especially when the label says "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis Faciebat Anno 1720." It seems authentic enough, right?
Wrong. All 650 from the surviving Stradivarius instruments happen to be accounted for. Discovering "The Red Violin" of Stradivariuses is really impossible. Shucks.
How can a lot of people discover Stradivariuses in the attic if they're all accounted for? Thousands and thousands of violins happen to be made which copy the Stradivarius design and bear labels that read "Stradivarius." This practice once was a sort tribute to Stradivari and the remarkable craftsmanship in addition to a way of specifying the model around which a musical instrument was designed.
Recently, however, the confusion generated through the false labels has led to commercial gain for scheming crooks. A sly seller can deceive a novice buyer with a battered old fiddle having a label and phony certificate of authenticity. I am sure many collectors have paid a large amount of money for fake Strads.
Most buyers today consult an appraiser to avert being swindled. In other cases an appraiser isn't necessary as it is obvious the violin is a fake. Certainly one of my violins has got the usual Strad label and date, then "Made in Germany." Identification such as which was required by United States regulations on imported goods within the late 1800s. It isn't a real Strad. Dang it.
The Smithsonian Institution states that "a violin's authenticity can only be determined through comparative study of design, model, wood characteristics, and varnish texture." In short, many hours of tests and comparisons by an experienced luthier (violin maker) that has seen countless genuine and replica Stradivariuses can tell the difference.
Don't throw that violin within the woodpile just yet! There is still expect your fiddle's greatness. It might be a duplicate, however it could be a really good copy. Actually, in 1851 Joseph Rocca made a convincing copy of the world's finest violin, the "Messiah" Strad, coupled with professionals duped until only recently. Any violinist could be only too happy to settle for a duplicate that sounds just like that certain.
Really, cost and label aside, a violin is definitely an instrument, a tool to make music. So what if your fiddle is made with a Norwegian goat herder or perhaps a factory assembler in China? What matters most is when it sounds when you draw your bow across its strings.
Consider getting that poor old beauty out of its case and learn how to allow it to be sing again. If you can't, then give it to somebody that can make it sing, donate it to some non-profit group who helps disadvantaged kids play, or trade it towards a finer instrument.
Music developed by one's heart is far more valuable to our souls than the usual Stradivarius ever could be.