Word: stradivariuses
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Rodman Wanamaker bought four Stradivarius violins, "Conte La Chesnaie" (1687), "Dancla" (1710), "Joachim" (1723), and that consummately powerful and resonant violin which is called "The Swan" because it is the last one the master-carver made before he died. It bears the inscription, "In My Ninety-Third Year." Mr. Wanamaker will not use these instruments himself. They will be played in concerts in the auditoriums of Wanamaker Stores in Manhattan, Philadelphia...
Many who were present at that performance came from farther than 21 miles away. The Ravinia opera pavilion, built in 1905 of pine lumber, has remarkably fine acoustics. Said Otto Kahn, famed banker and music patron: "It is like a fine old Stradivarius violin...
...room. A policeman recovered the instrument from a pawnshop where it was reposing as guarantee for $1.75. At the station house a man familiar with violins looked closely at the ancient " box." He was vastly interested. He had a violin maker open the instrument. Inside was the label-" Antonius Stradivarius, Cremonensis, faciebat anno 1723." Experts said that the "Strad" was genuine...