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Guarnerius

American  
[gwahr-nair-ee-uhs] / gwɑrˈnɛər i əs /

noun

  • Guarneriuses
    plural
  1. a violin made by Guarneri or by a member of his family.


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I’ll bet you a 1734 Guarnerius once owned by Bronislaw Huberman that you can’t find an interview or profile that doesn’t foreground some prominent mention of a certain landmark 1986 Tanglewood performance.

From Washington Post May 12, 2021

He was able to translate that approach to the Guarnerius in the Sibelius performance.

From New York Times Feb. 27, 2015

The number of Strads and Guarnerius del Gesùs and Amatis and Bergonzis is not.

From New York Times Jan. 29, 2012

He is deluged with gifts, which he almost invariably sends back; he once refused a $30,000 Guarnerius violin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their instruments are consequently found to possess much of the fine and powerful tone which distinguishes Stradiuarius and Guarnerius.

From Violins and Violin Makers Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators, to the present time. With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin. by J. H. (Joseph Henry) Pearce

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