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When I was a kid (early 90s) learning to play the violin those Strads cost under a million. Since then their price has rocketed just like every other tangible
by leonroy 10y ago
When I was a kid (early 90s) learning to play the violin those Strads cost under a million.
Since then their price has rocketed just like every other tangible which has become a hotly contested investment asset.
It's sad because it makes these things less and less likely to get played and more likely to end up in a vault.
Good to see at least a handful of them in use out there.
- pimlottc 10y agoThere's a list of all known Stradivarius instruments on Wikipedia and it's actually nice to see that quite a good number of them are made available to musicians via loan programs or specific bequests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stradivarius_instruments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stradivarius_instrumen...
- stouset 10y agoStringed musical instruments also typically increase in value as they are routinely played. A trained musician, as I understand it, can readily identify an instrument that has lain idle.