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
The instruments — a harp by Stradivari and a cello by the master luthier Nicola Amati — appear to have been made from the same 17th-century spruce.
From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2022
Instead, Mr. Amati and Stradivari might simply have purchased wood from the same person, he said.
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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