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 ...

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

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

This week, a violin made by famed Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari could become the most expensive musical instrument ever sold at auction. Sotheby's is estimating that a Stradivarius made in 1714 ...

In Cremona, the Italian city that gave birth to some of the finest violins ever made, residents are being told to be as quiet as possible, because of an ambitious project to preserve the sounds of ...

We hear a performance on a 1724 Stradivarius and speak with one of the world’s foremost experts on rare instruments, in town for TMF. 600 – Roughly the number of Stradivarius violins remaining in the ...

It’s not what you play, but how you play it. It’s not the story, but how you tell it. On Thursday, at 6 p.m., San Diego Symphony Concertmaster Jeff Thayer will tell a story featuring a Stradivarius ...

Note: This episode originally aired in May, 2014. Violins and violas are like living, breathing things. Many are hand-crafted with wood from a tree. Each one is different. And you know the story – ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

Mr. Cello – plus a decorated Stradivarius viola and two Strad violins – traveled to Willard Airport on a Falcon 2000 jet owned by Sheila Johnson, a 1970 alumna of the University of Illinois School of ...

"I really could hardly believe it at the time," Nina Totenberg, the legal affairs correspondent for NPR, told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday. "I said, 'I have to call my sisters. I'll ...