{"id":5068,"date":"2010-07-17T23:18:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T06:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=5068"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:23:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:23:36","slug":"18-million-violin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/17\/18-million-violin\/","title":{"rendered":"$18 million violin"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/story.php?storyId=128572508&amp;ft=1&amp;f=10003\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   \" title=\"&quot;Vieuxtemps&quot; Del Gesu\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/guarneri.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Vieuxtemps&quot; del Gesu - Photo: Matthew Tolzmann<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The famed &#8220;Vieuxtemps&#8221; violin made by Guarneri del Gesu is up for sale.\u00a0 Interested?\u00a0 Hopefully you&#8217;ve got deep pockets, the asking price is a record $18 million.<!--more--><br \/>\nLook at the NPR News story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/story.php?storyId=128572508&amp;ft=1&amp;f=10003\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Philippe Quint plays music of John Corigliano on the Vieuxtemps del Gesu:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"549\" height=\"334\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UJC-f6HNF8g&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>You can also read about Joshua Bell&#8217;s experience playing on the Vieuxtemps del Gesu <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/joshua-bell-vieuxtemps-violin\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famed &#8220;Vieuxtemps&#8221; violin made by Guarneri del Gesu is up for sale.\u00a0 Interested?\u00a0 Hopefully you&#8217;ve got deep pockets, the asking price is a record $18 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[424,115,21],"tags":[2358,3659],"class_list":["post-5068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instruments","category-music","category-violin","tag-vieuxtemps","tag-violin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1jK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":203,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/10\/spring-recital-planned\/","url_meta":{"origin":5068,"position":0},"title":"spring recital planned","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"My first major, formal recital in Portland (it only took 11 years!!) will take place on Saturday, April 7th at 7:30 p.m. at the Community Music Center (3350 SE Francis St, Portland, 97202). 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