Stradivari
Americannoun
noun
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"The marionette is like the Stradivari of the puppet world," said Mark Mander, producer and director of Cinderella.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2022
That wording implies that Stradivari was a pupil of Amati, said Mr. Kelly, but it was the only label like it that has surfaced.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
But evidence of a link between Stradivari and Amati has remained stubbornly tenuous: One violin made by Stradivari bears a label reading “Antonius Stradiuarius Cremonensis Alumnus Nicolaij Amati, Faciebat Anno 1666.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
Stradivari kept the instrument for 55 years, selling it in 1734 for 40 pounds to Samuel Hellier of Wombourne, England.
From Reuters ● Jun. 6, 2022
Amati’s family workshop was subsequently imitated by two other now legendary violin-making families of Cremona, the Stradivari and the Guarneri, in whose hands the town swiftly eclipsed the earlier reputation of Brescia.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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