STRADIVARIUS VIOLIN
09.04 Edit This 0 Comments » Talking about THE STRADIVARIUS VIOLIN, I actually knew this from my violin teacher. He told me that this kind of cool thing is the most expensive violin in this globe! And there are now only less than 650 violin in this world.
A Stradivarius is a violin or other stringed instrument built by a member of the Stradivari family, particularly Antonio Stradivari. According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or reproduce, though this belief is controversial. The name "Stradivarius" has also become a superlative applied to designate excellence. To be called "the Stradivari" of any field is to be deemed the finest there is.
It is not uncommon for violins to be labeled or branded "Stradivarius", as the name has been used since by other manufacturers.
The fame of Stradivari instruments is now a modern phenomenon and they appear in numerous works of fiction. The fictional detectiveSherlock Holmes is described as having owned a Stradivarius, with detail given to how he purchased the instrument for fifty-five English Siblings in the story "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box". A famous, if perhaps apocryphal, story about the Duplot claims the instrument's visible dent was made by the boots of Emperor Napoleon I of France, who tried his hand at playing it.
The reputation of the Stradivarius is such that its name is frequently invoked as a standard of excellence in other unrelated fields (such as ships and cars); for example, the Bath Iron Works' unofficial motto is "A Bath boat is the Stradivarius of destroyer!" In 1924, The Vincent Bach Corporation began releasing a line of trumpets which would later become known as Stradivarius Trumpet in an attempt to capitalize on the Stradivari name.
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