The Economist (US), September 4th, 2004
Still filling halls with life three centuries after its birth
EVEN a tone-deaf trucker knows that the most famous, the most expensive, the most desired violin in the world today is a Stradivarius. But why should these 300-year-old instruments be so sought after? And why have they never been eclipsed? These two questions lie at the centre of Toby Faber's enlightening book about a man with magical hands.
When Antonio Stradivari set up his workshop in the small northern Italian town of Cremona in the 1660s, the best-known violins were being made by the Amati family. Small, yet beautifully inl...
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