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« on: May 17, 2006, 08:49:55 PM »
The "Hammer" Stradivarius sold for $3.5 million yesterday!!!  cool

For a video clip of the auction, opened by the violin being played, see

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news_web/video/9012da680042b40/nb/09012da680042da3_16x9_nb.asx
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« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2006, 12:53:08 AM »
Wow,,,

Imagine, you just paid $3.5 million for a violin and you're not telling anybody. Most of us would be going "WOO HOOOO!!! Look what I just bought!"
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« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2006, 02:41:55 AM »
Hearing a Stradivarius in concert at least once should be on everyone's life "to-do" list.

The quality of sound is so incredible.
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« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2006, 03:57:58 AM »
There are many things about which I have no knowledge, but how did I not know that that thing is just short of 300 years old?!?!?
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« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2006, 05:12:00 AM »
That's a lot of dough. Now I know why Larry was so upset when Curly fell on and crushed Larry's Strativarius during that boxing match.
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« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2006, 06:05:12 AM »
hahaha I remember that one.
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« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2006, 12:32:29 PM »
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Hearing a Stradivarius in concert at least once should be on everyone's life "to-do" list.
Especially if it's being played by Itzhak Perlman. If you've never seen him in concert, do so...

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« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2006, 12:47:46 PM »
Quite a pricey instrument. And I thought the Steinway I'm lusting for at around 100K was expensive.
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« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2006, 03:44:23 PM »
Heh... and I'm balking at a $2K Les Paul?!?!?

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« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2006, 05:19:04 PM »
"Hearing a Stradivarius in concert at least once should be on everyone's life "to-do" list.

The quality of sound is so incredible."

   A guy I knew in high school has one.  I don't think he owns it; rather, it's on permanent loan.  Joe is a bluegrass fiddler, the best I've ever heard.  He's often the fiddle guy for a lot of big C&W stars (don't ask me who-some guys in cowboy hats Wink ).  I remember him playing it one night at a nightclub in Dayton called "Canal Street Tavern", with a so-so band called "Tripe" (also a bunch of guys I went to HS with).  Joe had a fiddle solo.  I can't remember how it sounded, but I remember how I felt.  It went right to your soul-like he was drawing the bow across your heartstrings.  I forgot to breathe, and tears came to my eyes.  I don't think there was a dry eye in the house-it hit everyone else too.  An incredible violinist playing a perfect instrument.

Whatever the price on a Strad, it's worth it, just to hear a grandmaster musician play it.
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