Antonio Stradivari "Hellier" with decoration spinimages=12 All together a very interesting

All together a very interesting shape which gives you an extreme well balanced but full of character Italian sound pattern which seems to be without any limit

Very long C bouts with reduce the upper part to a minimum

Immediately Bergonzi gave me two items and said: “These are yours

• shoulder-strap

I made this instrument initially for a musician in Austria who played it for over 25 years every day in the orchestra

Antonio Stradivari "Hellier" with decoration spinimages=12 All together a very interestingThe Stradivari "Hellier" is probably one of the most beautiful decorated violins. As you might know Antonio Stradivari learned to be an "intarsiatore", which stands for craftsman who decorates wooden made items, mainly furniture. Very likely Amati, who was working close by in the same street, brought his violins to be decorated to the workshop where Stradivari worked. Slowly Stradivari started to make his own decorated violins. The decorated