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Betts Stradivarius

The Oberlin Betts violin, a replica of the Betts Stradivarius

The Betts Stradivarius is an antique violin made in 1704 by the Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona. It is one of around 650 known extant Stradivari instruments.

It has been owned by the French violin maker Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume and London instrument dealers W.E. Hill & Sons.[1] The instrument is currently in the collection of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., among the four other Stradivaris in the Cremonese Collection donated by Gertrude Clarke Whittall in 1935.[2]

References

  1. ^ Hill, William Henry; Hill, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick); Hill, Alfred Ebsworth (1909). Antonio Stradivari, his life and work (1644-1737). London : Macmillan and Co. p. 285.
  2. ^ "The Collections of Musical Instruments: The Cremonese Collection". Library of Congress. 29 April 2002. Retrieved 11 May 2008.

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