The violin by the famed Italian luthier was plundered at the end of World War II and presumed lost or destroyed. Now experts ...

Long thought lost in the chaos of World War II, a 316-year-old Stradivarius violin may have resurfaced in Japan—sparking a ...

Only about 650 surviving Stradivarius violins exist, and many of them are in the hands of private collectors, safely hidden from public view. There are even fewer cellos, about 55, and about 12 ...

The Stradivarius violin gets its name from master craftsman Antonio Stradivari. When he died in 1737, his secrets died with him: No one has ever been able to duplicate the sound of the violins or ...

Lifestyle Stradivarius violin crafted at ‘pinnacle’ of maker's career over 300 years ago sells for eye-popping price Funds raised from the auction will benefit a Boston-based music ...

Only some 650 true Stradivarius violins exist, musical instrument experts say, and each is more or less accounted for. They don't simply turn up. "Most of the Stradivariuses are known and documented.

A valuable violin with a storied past will be sold at Sotheby’s in February—and it could become the most expensive musical instrument ever auctioned. Known as the Joachim-Ma Stradivarius, the ...

Preview: The City of Music 01:45. In the medieval Italian city that gave the world the famed Stradivarius violin, Bill Whitaker finds artisans still at work trying to replicate the precious sound ...

This 300-year-old violin could become the most expensive musical instrument. A Stradivarius violin made in 1714, known as the Joachim-Ma, is expected to sell for up to $18 million at a Sotheby’s ...

It's named for two of its famed owners - violin virtuosos Joseph Joachim of Hungary, who lived from 1831 to 1907, and Si-Hon Ma, who was born in China in 1926, moved to the U.S. in 1948 and died ...

And third, some people might buy a Stradivarius simply as an investment, "the same way you would buy Bitcoin. But we try to keep the violins away from that crowd whenever possible," he adds, laughing.

With a high estimate of $18 million, the Joachim-Ma Stradivarius may unseat the Lady Blunt violin, which sold for $15.9 million in 2011.