![]() Out of such stories as these – which are supposed to be true – has arisen a collectors’ myth. It was subsequently authenticated as a genuine Stradivarius. ![]() In 1951 a soldier in the Korean war found a violin hidden in the wall of a rundown farm house. One of the Strads was stolen from his hotel room, and was not recovered. He had with him four Stradivarius violins. In 1908 a famous Belgian violinist named Eugene Ysaye was on a concert tour in St. The chances of finding or discovering a genuine “Strad” are very, very low indeed. It ended up belonging to a collection and was reported “missing” a number of years earlier. In over forty years in business and after looking at countless thousands of violins at The Loft Violin Shop, only once have we found an actual Stradivarius.
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