Most Expensive Musical Instrument
Item: Guarneri del Gesù violin
Winning Bid: $3.9 million
Sold: 2007
Even if you don't play the violin, you've probably heard of
Antonio Stradivari, the famous Italian craftsman of stringed instruments
(or luthier, as such a person is known). But it was Bartolomeo Giuseppe
Antonio Guarnieri, the grandson of one of Stradivari's apprentices,
whose instrument broke the world record for the highest-priced auction
item. The 250-year-old violin — one of only 250 Guarnieri instruments
that survive — was purchased by a Russian lawyer. It was subsequently
played for the first time in 70 years by Israeli maestro Pinchas
Zukerman during a private concert in Moscow.
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