Several years ago, Stephanie Culp Smith received an old violin that had belonged to her late grandfather when he was a boy. Smith's mother had discovered the instrument while cleaning out the man's ...

The timbre of a Stradivarius violin is unmatched. Produced by the famed Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, these violins are still reputed today for the ...

All of these instruments were made by Antonio Stradivari, and are valued above $15 million.

For decades, renowned violinist Erica Morini thrilled music lovers around the globe. In her hands was one of the most prized possessions in the world of music: a Stradivarius violin which would be ...

A study of over 275 violins suggests that Antonio Stradivari used wood from high-altitude forests in northern Italy to craft ...

A nearly 300-year-old Stradivarius violin that belonged to American copper mining heiress Huguette M. Clark is up for auction in New York City. A nearly 300-year-old Stradivarius violin found in the ...

The centuries-old mystery over what went into building Antonio Stradivari's best violins may be narrowing to a single Alpine ...

WASHINGTON -- Renowned violinist Roman Totenberg left his beloved Stradivarius in his office while greeting well-wishers after a concert in 1980. When he returned, it was gone. Its case was later ...

In the medieval Italian city that gave the world the famed Stradivarius violin, Bill Whitaker finds artisans still at work trying to replicate the precious sound of the million-dollar instrument known ...

After spending two and half hours playing around on the different instruments, six out of the ten musicians chose one of the modern violins for the hypothetical tour—and only three picked a ...

Some sell for more than $3.5 million. Only 700 of them exist, and they're stored in vaults, frequently stolen and often counterfeited. The object in question? Stradivarius violins, constructed by ...

On the first day of 1879, Joseph Joachim, the virtuosic Hungarian violinist, took to the stage in Leipzig and premiered Johannes Brahms’s Violin Concerto in D Major, the only such work the German ...