VIDEO: What Does a $45 Million Viola Sound Like?

Wednesday, March 26, 201411:26 PM(View: 13030)
VIDEO: What Does a $45 Million Viola Sound Like?
I have always wondered how a Stradivari's instrument would sound...finally!

"Built some time between 1700 and 1720, during the very best period of Stradivari’s work, the viola is a real rarity, one of only ten in existence. Maybe that justifies the starting price of $45 million. What does that prized strad actually sound like, you might wonder?"


This clip features violinist David Aaron Carpenter playing Suite No. 3 in C by Johann Sebastian Bach."


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