• ID: 254
  • Type: violin
  • Maker: Antonio Stradivari
  • Year built: 1714
  • City: Cremona
  • Name: Sinsheimer; General Kyd, Perlman
Label: original
Ribs: of wood similar to back with smaller flame
Neck: original, lengthened with the insertion of a wedge at the base
Body Length: 35.9 cm.
Lower Bout: 20.8 cm.
Back: Two-piece cut on the quarter with broad figure extending downwards from the center joint
Scroll: plain
Varnish: Red
Upper Bout: 16.7 cm.

Photos

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  • front
  • back
  • front, back & f-hole
  • scroll & side

Iconography Index

Black-and-white photos (front, back & side): "The "General Kyd" Strad", The Strad, January, 1962, 1962.

Black-and-white photos (front, back, side, scroll & f-hole - initialed by Emil Herrmann): The Jacques Francais Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

Black-and-white photos (front, back, side, scroll & f-hole): Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari 1644-1737, Herbert K. Goodkind, Larchmont, New York, 1972.

Color photo (back): "Personal Treasures", Joanna Pieters, The Strad, November, 2002, 2002.

Color photos (front & back): Bein & Fushi 1994 Calendar, Bein & Fushi, Chicago, 1994.

Color photos (front & back): The Late Cremonese Violin Makers, Dmitry Gindin, Editioni Novecento, Cremona, 2002.

Provenance

Owner Owned From Owned In Owned Till Price paid
Unknown         For members only 
David L. Fulton  1994  2005     
...         
Uto Ughi       1994   
Dr. James K. Sutherland (Michigan)         
Itzhak Perlman          
Theodore Marchetti (Columbus, Ohio)    1961     
Elliot Fischer  1949       
Sophia Fischer (Phoenix, Arizona)    1946     
...         
Bernard Sinsheimer   1928      For members only 
W.E. Hill & Sons  1928    1928   
...         
General Kyd      1793   
...         

Current owner Current owner
Indicates that the owner is or was also a musician Indicates that the owner is or was also a musician

Players

Name Played From Played In Played To
...       
Uto Ughi       1994 
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenburg       
Itzhak Perlman        
...       

Current player Current player
Indicates that the musician is or was also an owner of one or more instruments. Indicates that the musician is or was also an owner of one or more instruments

Certificates

Dendrochronological analysis: John C. Topham, Redhill. Youngest ring is 1700.

Certificate: Wurlitzer, New York

References

Antonio Stradivari and His Instruments, William Henley, Amati Publishing, Ltd., Sussex, 1961.

Antonio Stradivari: His Life & Work (1644-1737), W. Henry, Arthur F. & Alfred E. Hill, William E. Hill & Sons, London, 1902.

Bein & Fushi 1994 Calendar, Bein & Fushi, Chicago, 1994.

Bein & Fushi catalog, Spring, 1993, Bein & Fushi, Chicago, 1993.

The Late Cremonese Violin Makers, Dmitry Gindin, Editioni Novecento, Cremona, 2002.

Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari 1644-1737, Herbert K. Goodkind, Larchmont, New York, 1972.

"How Many Strads? - Supplemental", Ernest N. Doring, Violins & Violinists, July-August, 1954, 1954.

"Mondo Italiano!", Strings, October, 2005.

"Personal Treasures", Joanna Pieters, The Strad, November, 2002, 2002.

"The "General Kyd" Strad", The Strad, January, 1962, 1962.

http://www.sheilascorner.com/strad2.html

http://www.stradivariinvest.com/

The Jacques Francais Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

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Is this violin played by Frank-Michael Erben (Gewandhaus quartet) today?
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