"[Stewart] Pollens, the 51-year-old conservator of musical instruments at the Metropolitan Museum, has ignited a most undignified firestorm of rancor and name-calling in this insular area of collecting. He did so by uttering the worst kind of blasphemy: He suggested that arguably the world's most celebrated Stradivarius violin is a fake. This so-called Messiah, or Le Messie, is housed in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University and estimated to be worth some $20 million."
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29.7.09
The Messiah: is it real?
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This is truly fascinating. Can you notice construction differences in the violins you play? I remember when you tried out all those incredible instruments at Bein and Fushi, the quality of each violin's sound alone was immediately noticeable.
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