Duport Stradivarius

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  Barjansky Stradivarius

  The Barjansky Stradivarius of c.1690 is an antique cello fabricated by the Italian Cremonese luthier Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737). The Barjansky is named after Russian cellist Alexandre Barjansky, who played the instrument during the first half of the twentieth century. Barjansky was the...
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  Davidov Stradivarius

  The Davidov Stradivarius (also: Davidoff or Davydov), is an antique cello fabricated in 1712 by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Italy. It is very similar in construction and form to the equally famed Duport Stradivarius built a year earlier and played by Mstislav Rostropovich until...
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  Servais Stradivarius

  The Servais Stradivarius is an antique cello fabricated in 1701 by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona (1644-1737). It is one of only sixty-three extant cellos attributed to his handicraft. The cello takes its name from the nineteenth-century Belgian cellist, Adrien Francois Servais (1807...

• General Kyd Stradivarius

  The General Kyd; ex-Stern Stradivarius is an antique cello crafted in 1684 by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. It was used by the English cellist Leo Stern in the premiere of Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor in London in 1896. Noted owners of the General Kyd-Stern are its...

• Bonjour Stradivarius

  The Bonjour Stradivari cello was made by famous luthier Antonio Stradivari ca. 1696. The instrument is named after the amateur 19th-century Parisian cellist Abel Bonjour. On the death of Bonjour sometime after 1885 the cello passed via Fridolin Hamma of Stuttgart to Dr. Hans Kühne of Cologne, who...

• Arpeggione

  The arpeggione is a six-stringed musical instrument, fretted and tuned like a guitar, but bowed like a cello, and thus similar to the bass viola da gamba. It enjoyed a brief vogue, perhaps a decade, after its invention around 1823, by the Viennese guitar maker Johann Georg Staufer (1778-1853). The...

• De Munck Stradivarius

  The De Munck; Feuermann; Gardiner Stradivarius of 1730 is an antique cello crafted by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari. Though labelled 1710, the cello was made during Stradivari's "late period". The De Munck-Feuermann is characterised by its long narrow shape. It has been played by cellists...

• Ex Vatican Stradivarius

  The Ex Vatican Stradivarius is a cello crafted circa 1620 by Nicolo Amati, master to Antonio Stradivari. The instrument was originally crafted as a viola da gamba and converted into a cello by Stradivari. The filigree and paintings on the front and back of the cello were added in the 19th Century...

• Barjansky Stradivarius Cello

  The "Barjansky" Stradivarius cello (c.1690) is named after the Russian virtuoso cellist Alexandre Barjansky, who played the instrument during the first half of the twentieth century. Barjansky was the dedicatee of Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo which he premiered on the Stradivarius. He also premiered the...

• String instrument

  A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones. The most common string instruments in the string family are...