A record-breaking Stradivarius has sold for $23 million (£17.8 million), the highest sum ever paid for a violin. The 1715 ...

There is only one Stradivarius violin in Poland, a rare example that survived the turmoil of the Second World War and ...

This week, a violin made by famed Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari could become the most expensive musical instrument ever sold at auction. Sotheby's is estimating that a Stradivarius made in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A violin made in 1714 by the legendary luthier Antonio Stradivari sold for $11.3 million at an auction in New York on Friday, short of estimates that would have made it the most ...

and a 1693 violin made by Antonio Stradivari owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Strad, worth millions of dollars and sent to the recording session at the MFA with a police escort, was ...

And if you're wondering, the current record is held by another Strad, sold for nearly $16 million in 2011. These violins are among the most coveted in the world, and there's a good reason for that.

The violoncello later passed through the hands of the famed London violin shop of William Henry Hill and Sons, the authoritative biographers of Stradivari, who called it "one of the most beautiful ...

The Joachim-Ma Stradivarius violin is on display at Sotheby's in New York City on Monday. (AFP/Getty Images) ...