There are four primary reasons for the expensive price of Stradivarius violins. First of all, the value of a Stradivarius violin is so high because they are no longer being made, and there are so ...

A valuable violin with a storied past will be sold at Sotheby’s in February—and it could become the most expensive musical instrument ever auctioned. Known as the Joachim-Ma Stradivarius ...

Therefore, the presence of a Stradivarius label in a violin has no bearing on whether the instrument is a genuine work of Stradivari himself. The usual label, whether genuine or false, uses the Latin ...