Many replicas of Stradivarius violins exist, some with labels inside them that say Antonio Stradivari's name, such as the one pictured here. Rhiannon Nachbaur. The truth is often hard to ...

There's no shortcut. Many people think because their violin has a Stradivarius label, it's the real thing. But in fact, thousands of violins have been made with the label.

Roman’s Stradivarius violin, ... After breaking the case’s combination lock, they spotted a label on the violin indicating it had been made by Stradivari in 1734.

(Grandfather's old violin in the attic is not likely to be a Strad, unfortunately, even if it has a label that says "Stradivarius." Such labels are found in mass-produced violins by the thousands ...

Stolen Stradivarius Violin Returned To Roman Totenberg’s Family After 35 Years. This handout photo provided by the FBI New York shows The Ames Stradivarius which was recovered by the FBI in June.

NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg has reclaimed the long lost Stradivarius violin that once belonged to her virtuoso father, the culmination of a decades-long mystery. The extraordinary story was ...

Enclosed are photographs of my old violin I bought at a garage sale (shown below). Later I found the marks “Antonius Stradivarius” and “Made in Czecho-Slowakia” inside the v… ...

As gingerly as she had opened the case, Mayer said, “The label says Stradivarius.” It hadn’t taken long for someone to invoke the name of the finest maker of violins the world has known.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Philip Johnson was dying of pancreatic cancer when he brought his former wife, Thanh Tran, to the basement of his home in Venice, California. Under a tarp that was weighted ...

Many replicas of Stradivarius violins exist, and appear to be complete with their names and labels, but experts determined the Kreutzer's authenticity by examining the ring growths found on its ...

A Stradivarius violin that sold for $11.3 million, just shy of the $15.9 million record, will benefit a Boston music conservatory and fund student scholarships.