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Aug-31-2010
Ryanair tells girl to buy £190 plane seat for violin
Cheshire music student was ordered to buy an extra seat for her violin after an airline refused to let her take the instrument as hand luggage.
Aug-31-2010
Renato Scrollavezza reunited with violin
A stolen 1958 Renato Scrollavezza violin has been recovered by police. The €25,000 violin was one of two instruments taken from the Parma-based luthier's home in 2004.
Aug-31-2010
Protesting Proposed Pay Cuts, Detroit Symphony Orchestra Players Authorize Strike
Funding for the arts has been cut in many cities in recent years as a result of the troubled economy, but some Detroit Symphony Orchestra members say that they believe something else is at least partially responsible for the drastic pay cuts that have been proposed by the orchestra's administrators: a history of mismanagement. Through their union, they have voted to authorize a strike.
Aug-26-2010
Report sparks welfare check on heiress Huguette Clark
Msnbc.com readers have prompted New York City officials to start checking on the welfare of Huguette Clark, the reclusive 104-year-old heiress with three empty mansions. The inquiry into her well-being is in addition to a criminal investigation into the handling of Clark's finances launched by the Manhattan district attorney. After msnbc.com's series of reports last week on the men handling Huguette Clark's half-billion-dollar fortune, at least 140 readers contacted Adult Protective Services, according to Rima Rivera, director of the agency's central intake unit.
Aug-22-2010
Discovery of stolen viola sweet music to owner's ears
The burglar struck Labor Day weekend 1999, removing the window air conditioner, then entering through the opening. When Robin Hosemann returned from her holiday, she found her Ravenswood apartment ransacked. Despite the mess, the thief had taken only one thing: Hosemann's prized 1986 Armin Barnett viola.
Aug-21-2010
Stradivarius hopes hit a sour note
It took violin maker David Gusset only a few seconds to determine the violin owned by the Pioneer-Indian Museum in Canyonville was not a prized Stradivarius. Gusset pulled the stringed instrument out of its case, peered at the front, turned it over, looked at the backside and along the sides before offering his appraisal. “This is a very, very cheap instrument,” said Gusset, a member of the International Society of Violin and Bow Makers and whose handcrafted violins sell for about $24,000.
Aug-20-2010
Who is Watching Huguette's Millions?
The London violin expert and dealer Charles Beare, who handled the 2001 sale, said that out of the 550-some surviving Stradivari violins, this one is "almost certainly in the top five or six." Beare heard from Huguette's attorney, Bock, that she had finally decided to sell it. He immediately called David Fulton, a software millionaire in the Seattle area. A former concertmaster, Fulton had merged his Fox Software database company into Microsoft, using his fortune to collect the world's finest violins.
Aug-19-2010
Hong Kong police recover antique violin stolen from dozing musician
An antique violin worth more than 300,000 US dollars was on its way back to Taiwan Friday after being stolen from a snoozing musician on Hong Kong's Star Ferry. The hand-made 1838 Italian violin, on loan from the Chi Mei antique instruments museum in Tainan, Taiwan, was stolen from the musician after a concert by the Asian Youth Orchestra on August 10.
Aug-03-2010
Ryanair: Violins will cost you £1,340 extra
The trio were told just three days before their flight that they would have to buy an extra seat for each of their instruments, rather than being allowed to take them on board as hand luggage. The airline ruled that the cases, which could have fitted an overhead locker, were larger than the maximum permitted size - 55cm x 40cm x 20cm. 18-year-old Hungarian Agnes Langer, along with Russian Igor Tsinman, 26, flew from Frankfurt with their tutor, Professor Anne Shih for a concert in Salle, Norfolk.
Jul-27-2010
Tribe Hopes Melody will Summon Precious Violin
Recovering the 200-year-old instrument, stolen from a mission, is a matter of Salinan Indian pride.
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