Look what happened to my Strad!

Look what happened to my Strad!

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norman lebrecht

November 16, 2014

Ragin Wenk-Wolff opened her violin case yesterday and this is what she found.

ragin strad 1

She tells Slipped Disc: ‘Apparently this happens occasionally. No one is sure what caused it. It did not happen under any extreme conditions and not even while I was playing it or while it was manipulated. Thankfully not during a performance. The tail piece sure looks paper-thin where it broke. It is a 1689 Strad’.

ragin strad 2

Ragin has sent the instrument to a restorer and is awaiting diagnosis and a treatment estimate.

Has anyone else had this experience?

Here’s how the instrument sounds in action.

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