It bears the maker's label: "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonenfis Faciebat 1714." However, according to global Sotheby's auction firm, a Stradivarius violin is "not like other antiques" as questions ...

The most illustrious of several violin makers in the Bergonzi family was Carlo ... He used several different wordings on his labels but a typical one reads: Like the works of other great makers, the ...

The violin is the smallest and highest-pitched of the string instrument family. Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres - they are most prominent in the Western classical ...