How I Came to Play the World’s Most Expensive Violin
News item, September 2016: In June 2011 Tarisio Auction House conducted the sale of the most well-preserved Stradivari in private circulation, setting a world record of $15.9 million in the process… Confronted by the tragic events of the March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and resulting nuclear crisis, The Nippon Music Foundation made an extraordinary offer […]
Carl Becker: Master Violin Maker
Lerner Newspapers, 1976 This was the second of a three-part article profiling instrument makers in the Chicago area. The other two were violin maker Franz Kinberg and lute maker Richard Brune. I only found this part of the article when I visited the shop of Carl Becker & Son in the spring of 2014, when Carl Junior’s […]