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Lord of the strings; Antonio Stradivari.(The violins of Antonio Stradivari)
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September 4, 2004
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Still filling halls with life three centuries after its birth
EVEN a tone-deaf trucker knows that the most famous, the most expensive, the most desired violin in the world today is a Stradivarius. But why should these 300-year-old instruments be so sought after? And why have they never been eclipsed? These two questions lie at the centre of Toby Faber's enlightening book about a man with magical hands.
When Antonio Stradivari set up his workshop in the small northern Italian town of Cremona in the 1660s, the best-known violins were being made by the Amati ...
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