Finding a Guarneri violin is needle in a haystack stuff. Only about 150 are known to exist and rarely become available to collectors. As luck would have it, however, one such stringed instrument will ...

An exceptionally rare Guarneri violin—so fabled that it has its own name, the Baltic—sold for $9.44 million (premium included) at auction on March 16, just shy of its $10 million estimate. The final ...

A rare violin is expected to fetch $10 million or more when it goes up for auction in mid-March, as demand from collectors intensifies, and tight supply keeps prices for certain instruments ...

March 9 (UPI) --A rare violin that was crafted in 1731 by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu, one of the legendary Italian violin-makers of the era, is going up for auction at Tarisio in March, where it is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ray Ushikubo holds the 1741 Guarneri "del Gesù" violin. At first, playing the Playfair violin took some getting used to, but now ...