106:, which grossed $ 2.3 million, at the time the second-highest total for a violin auction. In July 2006 the firm announced its expansion with the addition of a London office to increase its presence in the European market. Jason Price became the sole owner of the firm in January 2010. In June 2010 Tarisio auctioned the contents of the historic Philadelphia violin firm of William Moennig & Son. The sale, which included over 600 lots of instruments, bows, and historical photographs, sold 100 percent of lots. The October 2010 auction, which included the 1697
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American violinist Isaac Stern in 2001, his estate decided to sell his entire collection of instruments, bows, and musical ephemera through Tarisio. Among world record prices in the May 2003 sale was $ 130,000 paid for a modern copy of one of Stern's Guarneri violins by Brooklyn
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In June 2010 Tarisio auctioned the contents of the
Philadelphia violin firm of William Moennig & Son. Among the many fine bows in the sale was a François Nicolas Voirin "picture" viola bow, which featured a lens embedded in the frog bearing a photograph of J.B. Vuillaume. The bow sold for $
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Founded in 1999 by partners
Christopher Reuning, Dmitry Gindin, and Jason Price, Tarisio was the world's first auction house to specialize in fine string instruments and bows. The firm held its first online auction in November 1999 and by October of that year British string magazine
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Two François Xavier Tourte cello bows
Tarisio auctioned in October 2006 and February 2007 sold for then world record prices: the first for $ 196,000 and the second ("ex-Romberg") for ÂŁ101,000 ($ 202,000). In the 20th century they were owned by
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October 2010 sale, in addition to setting a new world record of $ 9.4 million for a musical instrument auction, included an 1892 Vincenzo Postiglione violin that sold for a record $ 126,000 and a Nicolas Maline violin bow, which fetched $
245:, the English violinist and leader of a British Music Festival. The Stradivarius had been stolen from violinist Min-Jin Kym in London's Euston Station in 2010 and later recovered in excellent condition. The violin sold for $ 2.3 million.
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violin sold in the June 20, 2011 auction for a record $ 15.9 million. Sold on behalf of the Nippon Music
Foundation of Japan, the violin's proceeds benefited the Nippon Foundation's Northeastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief
220:'s Guadagnini of 1783 sold in October 2011 for $ 1.8 million, doubling the previous world record for a Guadagnini violin sold at auction. The sale featured on the front cover of Strings Magazine as 'The Million Dollar Guadagnini'.
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adjustments and other expert services. After Morel's retirement, he was succeeded at
Tarisio by his colleague the luthier Stefan Valcuha, who restores lutes as well as taking care of their general maintenance.
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catalogue of auction results, the company set over 400 international auction records in its first 10 years of business.
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and Joseph Curtin which had been commissioned by Ruggiero Ricci in 1985. The violin was a
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257:replica of the 1734 Ex-Huberman Guarneri del GesĂą
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