Word: violins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...approve the loan, but undaunted, Ptashne says he sold shares in the violin to friends, which put him "way into debt...
...party, Ptashne and Chen played two famous Guarnieri violins which make up part of Ptashne's instrument collection. Chen played the D'Egville, the violin that musician Yehudi Menuhin used to build his career...
...About 10 years ago I got a call from a dealer who said he had the D'Egville," Ptashne says. "I tried the violin and immediately loved it but had very little time to decide...
...remembered from Menuhin's biography that he had been associated with this violin so I called Menuhin, and he said it was the greatest violin in the world," Ptashne says. "I sold everything and bought...
...famous books by the Hill brothers describes [a collector named] Plowden who had these two violins together in 1850," Ptashne says. "A French violin maker named Vuillaume came by and said you will never see two such beautiful Guarnieris," he says. "So they are a famous historical pair that were apart for 100 years...