Show own a cremona maybe if your hope of sudden wealth rests in a violin case 1 labeled I 1 strad idarius 1716 1710 you may as well abandon it kenneth warren violin appraiser for a national musical instrument firm counsels 1 it is significant that of all the h hundreds of so called cremonese violins that have been brought in for appraisal not a single genuine instrument ment hits has ever been found 1 hundreds of persons persona a year who hille have violins bearing the labels 0 of the cremonese makers stradivari Stradi vori Guarnier jup and amati como come to us to sell them I 1 these instruments inist were not made to deceive anyone they were originally made as models from those of the cremonese and a ticket was put inside to indicate that they I 1 were copies copier of the maker ini in the course of time people came to tc believe that they were original instruments st there are only about abou stradivarius instruments left and we know where all of them are the chances of an another other turning up are exceedingly slim |