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With a belief that creating music together can help build stronger communities, violinist Daniel Perry has been nurturing Homer’s music scene since he moved to the community in 2012. A teacher, music director, and performer, Perry is a creative force dedicated to community education, most notably with local youth. ....
2021-03-16T13:00:00+00:00 The former concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw and Chicago Symphony Orchestra, among other ensembles, shares his thoughts on violin and bow forgeries It has been said that of the 1,100 or so instruments which Antonio Stradivari made, over 200,000 are still in existence. Throughout the ages, vendors taking advantage of trusting buyers has been a part of the trade in all objects of high value – folding money, stamps, paintings, even the studs of racehorses – you name it. The 1998 movie, The Red Violin deals with a violin forgery. In the movie, the red violin that sold for $2.4 million at auction was a copy of the original red violin taken by the expert appraiser for his daughter to use. The film was popular partly because it was believable. With high-value items, fraud is common. ....
I am often asked if they will continue to appreciate from their present high levels at the same rate as they have in the past. Well, a $1 million violin is not 100 times better than a $10,000 violin. In fact, performing before an audience of some 200 people at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix in 2015, Rachel Barton-Pine compared several modern violins, with several 300-year-old Cremona violins. The organizers asked the audience to vote on which one they liked most without knowing which violin she was playing. A violin made in 2013 by Arizona luthier Joel Shewchuk placed ahead of the Cremona masters. A Shewchuk violin, worth a small fraction of the multi-million dollar Cremona violins, is all I own now in retirement. ....