Name: 斯特拉迪瓦里小提琴為何價值百萬？ (Why Stradivarius violins are worth millions)
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In 2008 violinist Philippe Quint was flying back to New York from a concert

in Dallas. He took a taxi from the Newark Airport

to Manhattan and before he could take his violin out, the car pulled away.

It probably the scariest and most devastating experience of my life.

The cab driver returned the instrument a few hours later, but the incident scarred

Philippe for good reason. This wasn't just any violin he left in the cab. This

was a Stradivarius violin worth over four million dollars that's on loan to

him. It's like losing part of yourself, you know. It's like somebody cut off your

hand and especially given the fact it's not your hand.

Even if you're not a musician like me, you've probably

Stradivarius. Stradivarius. Stradivarius.

instruments in the world. And some of the most renowned musicians have declared

This instrument has a soul and it has an imagination. It's not

a tool. It is a part -- it's a total extension of me.

are incredibly valuable and can be worth up to 16 million

The characteristic of a Strad in general is that it has a silvery tone. And it

creates this incredibly sweet tone, so if you were...

For me the Strad has a sweet quality to it, but also able to take some blows. So

if I were to play something really hard...

By playing on my daughter's instrument I would have had to...

press kind of hard to to make that sound come out, but you would lose the quality

The source of the Strad's brilliant sound

can be traced back to its maker artisan Antonio Stradivari was a luthier or

violin maker who lived in Cremona, Italy in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

He crafted these string instruments for most of his life and

produced an estimated 1,100 instruments in his lifetime.

These instruments are rare and there's a long tradition of

The 310 year-old violin that Philippe plays

I have to admit, I'm a little nervous to be around that.

I googled the gemstone the ruby and the description, I think was

that it's a stone of passion and mystery.

qualities to this violin and to this day I really feel that it's true. For

generations, musicians have claimed that Strads have a superior sound to modern

violins, but can most people actually tell the difference?

performed a double-blind study with professional violinists, to see if they

could tell the difference between old Italian violins like Strads

They had musicians wear very cool sunglasses while they played

The study found that even elite musicians couldn't reliably tell which

And maybe more surprisingly, most of them

actually preferred the sound of the new violins over the Strads.

This is Joseph Curtin, one of the researchers behind the study

But maybe the worth of a Strad isn't wrapped up in its sound alone.

Michelle's violin has been passed down through generations of violinists for

almost 300 years, from the Duke of Cambridge, to the German composer Louis Spohr,

to Ureli Corelli, the founder of the New York Philharmonic.

It is a piece of history that you are holding.

I feel like this violin is the New York Philharmonic, because it has existed as

It's been amazing to be a part of this Strad's life.

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