A man and his daughter were murdered in the Paraguayan city of Aregua last month, and authorities there believe the horrific double-slaying to be related to the theft of several rare Stradivarius violins. Bernard Raymond von Bredow, a 62-year-old German man living in Paraguay, and his 14-year-old daughter Lydia were brutally murdered back in October after […]
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Study confirms superior sound of a Stradivari is due to the varnish
Enlarge / A 1729 Stradivari known as the “Solomon, Ex-Lambert” on display at Christie’s in New York in March 2007. (credit: Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images) Along with Andrea Amati and Andrea Guarneri, Antonio Stradivari dominated the so-called Golden Age of Violins (roughly 1660 to 1750), and the instruments they crafted remain the gold standard today in […]