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The world's most expensive grand piano sold at auction is a specially designed D-274 named Steinway Alma Tadema; [38] it sold for $1.2 million in 1997 at Christie's in London, [39] breaking Steinway's own 1997 price record of $390,000. [40] The D-274 was built in 1883–87 and designed by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
A Stradivarius is one of the violins, violas, cellos and other string instruments built by members of the Italian family Stradivari, particularly Antonio Stradivari ( Latin: Antonius Stradivarius), during the 17th and 18th centuries. They are considered some of the finest instruments ever made, and are extremely valuable collector's items.
Among the church's congregation was Vitus "Veit" Bach, a miller whose great-great grandson Johann Sebastian Bach would compose the most celebrated organ music in the world. The organ of St Patrick's Cathedral is one of the largest in Ireland with over 4,000 pipes. Parts of it date from a Renatus Harris instrument of 1695. [2]
The Wanamaker Organ was originally built by the Los Angeles Art Organ Company, successors to the Murray M. Harris Organ Co., for the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. It was designed to be the largest organ in the world, an imitation of a full-size orchestra with particularly complete resources of full organ tone including mixtures.
In the world of music, there are violins and then there are Stradivarius violins. Over 300 years ago, Antonio Stradivari, an Italian luthier, made about 1,100 instruments that some of the world's ...
On 7 November 2003, UNESCO announced that the Chinese guqin was selected as an Intangible World Cultural Heritage. In 2006, guqin was listed in the List of National Non-material Cultural Heritage in China. In 2010, a Song period guqin was sold for $22 million, making it the most expensive musical instrument ever sold. [4]
The double bass ( / ˈdʌbəlbeɪs / ), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone [ 1 ] in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass ). [ 2 ] Similar in structure to the cello, it has four or five strings.
The Axelrod quartet of Stradivarius instruments, on display in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History. From left to right: Greffuhle violin (1709), Axelrod viola (1696), Ole Bull violin (1687), and Marylebone cello (1688). Stradivarius violins at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.