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Why would anyone Buy a $10 Million Violin
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Because (without watching the video) a special violin with provenance has prestige and investment potential. Buy it and loan it to a concert-master or violin soloist and your name, as well as the musician playing the instrument will be promoted. A real head-game for ultra-wealthy.
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Don't get upset, it's just my experienced opinion, Steve Last edited by LAPlayer; 03-08-2024 at 09:49 PM. |
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Highly sought Stradivarius violins routinely cost that much, and ambitious violinists buy them and use them.
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For some reason this phenomenon appears to be pretty much confined to string and keyboard instruments, even in the popular-music world - I've traveled in classical-music circles, and I've yet to hear of (for instance) a historically-significant oboe or French horn named for its famous owner/player...
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…when instruments become that expensive you buy them because you can.
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Can you name a few?
And I do mean violinists known (and appreciated) as such who bought one themselves.... Quote:
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Why? Because they have the money. I've seen guitars that cost tens of thousands of dollars that people also buy. That also amazes me.
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Joshua Bell plays a 1713 Strad he purchased for $4mil in 2001. Maxim Vengorov plays a 1727 Strad he bought for 947,500 pounds sterling in 1998. David Garrett purchased his 1736 Guarneri for 3.5mil euros in 2022. But quite a few world-class soloists play instruments on loan from foundations or private collectors. Ten mill is quite a lot even for a Strad.
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stai scherzando? Last edited by frankmcr; 03-09-2024 at 12:21 PM. |
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Besides pride of ownership, owners who lend instruments enjoy opportunities: . Meet, greet and be recognized by musicians and conductors . Attend exclusive gala events and private parties . Socialize with fellow sponsors, which could: . Open doors to amateur ensemble practices . Open doors to mutual interests, and possible business connections . Please their music loving spouses and family . Could open doors for children with music interests Top dollar violins from violin makers in the 1600s and 1700s, and from the 1800s are scarce and each instrument is famous amongst violin aficionados as Trigger is known to guitarists. These instruments were played by famous performers and wealthy amateurs. Violins made by less famous workshops for regular musicians and enthusiasts sell for much less. There is a list of 282 violins known to be made at the workshops of Antonio Stradivaris, and similar lists for Guarneri, Almaty, Bergonzi, etc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...us_instruments The majority of top dollar violins are on loan to famous, and soon to be famous performers, from music societies and wealthy owners. Concert halls, orchestras, and top violinists believe that great violins make superior Music. Classical music has enough wealthy enthusiasts who want to help provide top violins to top performers. In some cases music societies do fund raising drives to acquire violins. In other cases wealthy folk want to own the violins and lend them to musicians. .
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According to the Wikipedia article on him he basically traded in a previous Strad he owned. It doesn't interest me enough to hunt down the fine print about this but I really doubt even such adulterated demi-gods have the free cash to buy a multi-million instrument out-of-pocket. If they don't get them on load from a maecenas (which would undoubtedly be publicised in most cases) they'll probably get a pretty serious loan or mortgage from a bank. Which would seem like a relatively safe investment, too.
"Gibson Stradivari" is kinda funny btw BTW: I see that one was estimated at 14 million in 2019. With values like that simply possessing and insuring it becomes a very costly affair!
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I think $9,000,000 of lessons would be a good idea first
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I ask the same question whenever I read about someone who never took lessons buys a $7K boutique acoustic guitar. It’s a “the grass is always greener” sort of thing. At some point you filter it out because you can’t keep up with the Joneses and the rich and famous have their own realities.
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Oh .......... it is....... 😜
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