Fiddler's violins sound the wrong note
Published: 01 November, 2008, 00:23
A Russian violinist has been arrested in Italy on suspicion of fraud. Sergey Dyachenko is suspected of selling his students fake 18th-century violins.
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While Italy is usually credited with being the birthplace of the violin, many in the southern Russian Republic of North Ossetia-Alania believe the instrument originated there, but under another name.
A rare Guarneri violin that was kept for a century in a private collection has been played for the first time in public in Moscow. The Guarneri instruments are even more revered by some players than those made by the legendary Antonio Stradivari.
Published: 01 November, 2008, 00:23
A Russian violinist has been arrested in Italy on suspicion of fraud. Sergey Dyachenko is suspected of selling his students fake 18th-century violins.