“While it has been a privilege to have one of the world’s finest violins, this sale will be transformational for our students.” The instrument, known as the “Joachim-Ma ...

Courtesy Sotheby's The instrument’s other namesake, Si-Hon Ma (1926-2009), was also a violin virtuoso. He acquired the Joachim-Ma Stradivarius in 1969 and, similar to Joachim, played it ...

Among the violin virtuosos who play a Stradivarius today are Itzhak Perlman, Akiko Suwanai and Joshua Bell. “I can’t think of anything else that has been frozen in time and stands as the holy ...