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Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari died on this day in 1737 – 277 years ago.

A protege of Nicolo Amati, it is estimated that Stradivari made approximately 1100 string instruments in his lifetime – with around 650 having survived today.

But who now plays on which?

Itzhak Perlman (1714 Soil)
Leonidas Kavakos (1724 Abergavenny)
Gil Shaham (1699 Countess Polignac)
Frank Peter Zimmermann (1711 Lady Inchiquin)
Joshua Bell (1713 Gibson ex-Huberman)
Ivry Gitlis (1713 Sancy)
James Ehnes (1715 Marsick)
VC ‘Young Artist’ Ray Chen (1715 Joachim)
VC ‘Young Artist’ Paul Huang (1713 ex-Wirth)
Janine Jansen (1727 Barrere)
Maxim Vengerov (1727 Kreutzer)
Gidon Kremer (1734 Baron Feilitzsch)
Anne-Sophie Mutter (1703 Emiliani)
Anne-Sophie Mutter (1710 Lord Dunn-Raven)
Julian Rachlin (1704 ex-Liebig)
Akiko Suwanai (1714 Dolphin)
Vadim Gluzman (1689 Auer)
Alex Kerr (1692 Falmouth)
VC ‘Young Artist’ Nikki Chooi (1700 Taft)
VC ‘Young Artist’ Yoojin Jang (1697 Rainville)
Viktoria Mullova (1723 Jules Falk)
Lorin Maazel (1722 Artot)
Kristof Barati (1703 Lady Harmsworth)
Isabelle Faust (1704 Sleeping Beauty)
Chee-Yun (1708 Strauss)
Jossif Ivanov (1699 Lady Tennant)
Soovin Kim (1709 ex-Kempner)
Svetlin Roussev (1710 Camposelice)
Jennifer Koh (1684 ex-Elphinstone)
Ryu Goto (1715 Duke of Cambridge)
Frank Almond (1715 Lipinski)
Philippe Quint (1708 Ruby)
Cho-Liang Lin (1715 Titan)
Arabella Steinbacher (1716 Booth)
Elisabeth Pitcairn (1721 Red Mendelssohn)
Nicola Benedetti (1717 Gariel)
Gyorgy Pauk (1714 Massart)
VC ‘Young Artist’ Chad Hoopes (1713 Cooper)
VC ‘Young Artist’ Tobias Feldmann (1703)
VC ‘Young Artist’ Caroline Goulding (1720 General Kyd)
VC ‘Young Artist’ Clara-Jumi Kang (1683 ex-Gingold)
VC ‘Young Artist’ Geza Hosszu Legocky (1715 ex-Joachim)
VC Young Artist Andrey Baranov (1708 Huggins)
David Garrett (1716 Ex-Busch)
Lisa Batiashvili (1709 Engleman)
Karen Gomyo (1703 ex-Foulis)
Augustin Hadelich (1723 ex-Keisewetter)
Baiba Skride (1725 Wilhelmj)
Koh Kameda (1727 Holroyd)
Corey Cerovsek (1728 Dragonetti-Milanollo)
Pierre Amoyal (1717 Kochanski)
Sayaka Shoji (1729 Recamier)
Benjamin Schmid (1731 Lady Jeanne)
Alexandre Da Costa (1667 Dubois)
VC ‘Young Artist’ Erzhan Kulibaev (1733 Rode)
Yuki Manuela Janke (1736 Muntz)
Daishin Kashimoto (1722 Jupiter)
Alexandru Tomescu (1702 Lukens)
Los Angeles Philharmonic (1729 ex-Jack Benny)
Australian Chamber Orchestra (1728)
Martin Beaver of the Tokyo String Quartet (1727 Paganini-Conte Cozio di Salabue)
Kikuei Ikeda of the Tokyo String Quartet (1680 Paganini-Desaint)
Halle Orchestra (1695 Lincoln)
Oslo Philharmonic (1689 Arditi)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (1687 Mercur-Avery)
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (1685 Eugenie)

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