Famous “Strad”
RESCUED FROM JUNGLE NEW YORK. From a plantation in a Brazilian jungle, where,' carefully boxed, it has lain buried for 40 years, a famous “Strad"— tho “Baillot Stradivarius" ! —came back. It had been sealed in a I lead box. ' Tne instrument, slightly longer than | most violins, is like new. “Naturally, it is stiff," Michael | Piastro, concert master of the New IYork Philharmonic Orchestra, said, [drawing the bow across the strings. | “but-the tone, as you can hear for yourself, is remarkable—deep, almost like a ’cello." 1 | The violin was made to order for an ancestor of the famous French violinist, Rone Bhillot. * For this reason, Piastro said, the instrument is known as the “father to son" violin. '
From Baillot the violin- went to a wealthy Italian woman. Sho sold it secretly. It appeared in the stock of a Continental dealer. It was then that Fritz Kreisler used it for his debut with tho Vienna Orchestra. About 40 years ago it disappeared. Stradivarius experts heard that it had been taken to South America. It was found after the death of Enrico Margues Valli, who owned it and kept it safo on his plantation.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 10
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