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1684 - Cello "General Kid - Leo Stern"

Soundboard of spruce at medium-broad grain. Back of two pieces of curly maple cut on the slab and of irregular horizontal medium curl, interspersed with knots formations in the middle bouts. Ribs of wood similar to that of the back. Scroll of curly maple cut on the quarter and of narrow curl. Golden-brown varnish.

  • 1683, Cremona
  • Original
  • 77.5 cm
  • 35.9 cm
  • 25.6 cm
  • 47.2 cm
  • Los Angeles (Usa), Los Angeles Philarmonic Orchesta
  • Leo Stern 1895/1902; Peter Stumpf since 2002
  • On 27 April 2004, the instrument was stolen from the house of the chief of the cello section of the orchestra. Three weeks later it was returned.
  • General Kyd; Sir William Curtis; James Goding 1857; Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (Paris) 1857; W.E. Hill & Sons 1857; Perkin; W.E. Hill & Sons 1901; Lord Amherst of Hackney 1901; Leo Stern 1902; W.E. Hill & Sons 1945; Henry Werro (Bern, Switzerland) 1945; Los Angeles Philharmonic 2004
  • Sandys-Foster 1864; Hill 1902; Phipson 1903; Doring 1945; Jalovec 1957; S. a. 1857; Henley 1961; Jalovec 1964; Goodkind 1972; Farga 1983; Campos 1998; Associated Press 2004; Broder 2004; Lin 2004
creato:domenica 3 giugno 2012
modificato:giovedì 23 marzo 2017