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Stradivarius

[ strad-uh-vair-ee-uhs ]

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noun

Stradivarius

/ ˌstrædɪˈvɛərɪəs /

any of a number of violins manufactured by Antonio Stradivari or his family Often (informal) shortened toStrad

Stradivarius

A kind of violin made by the Italian craftsman Antonio Stradivari in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Those that still survive are considered the finest violins in existence.

First recorded in 1825–35

Stradivarius violins have sold for more than a million dollars.

The post You might like Stradivarius violins because worms hate them appeared first on Popular Science.

In one experiment, six world-class musicians preferred the new instruments, while four preferred a Stradivarius.

He opened it with some trepidation, and it was found to contain a Cremona violin—a genuine Stradivarius.

The view is what I have endeavored to represent in a little poem called "Stradivarius," which you may not have happened to read.

There was no remedy but music, and as soon as Bradshaw got at his Stradivarius the mists seemed to disperse.

Such a pipe was perhaps to Theocritus what the fiddles of Stradivarius are to us.

The moment the bow touches the Stradivarius a stream of beautiful sound flows toward the hearer.

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