The market for the greatest instruments is the subject of keen interest by seekers of alternative investments. In today’s economy, where investments in stocks, bonds, commodities, real estate and hedge funds have either been severely battered or are at record highs and possibly poised for declines, investors are increasingly seeking non-correlated alternative investments. Auction records […]

Following a few simple steps before you bid can save you a lot of headaches—and hard-earned cash Long tables fill the preview galleries at Skinner auction house in Boston, crowded with double rows of violins and violas in various states of repair. A few resemble carcasses, with big cracks or missing pieces. Others are in […]

Upon receiving a diagnosis of brain cancer, Eric Sun set out to achieve some lifelong musical goals. Johannes Brahms wrote his first violin sonata for his muse, the pianist Clara Schumann. He presented it to her in 1879, soon after the death of her youngest child, Felix, who was named for the composer Felix Mendelssohn […]

MUSIK SiehabeneineViolinegeerbtundmöchtenwissen,ob sie wertvoll ist? Der Amerikaner Jason Price führt den bedeu- tendsten Onlinehandel für Streichinstrumente. Nächste Woche kann man in Bern Violinen und Co. bei ihm schätzen lassen.

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Eigentlich hat das Internet-Auktionshaus Tarisio, das auf Geigen, Celli und Bögen spezialisiert ist, seine beiden Firmensitze in New York und London. Seit ein paar Jahren geht es aber auch auf Tour und bietet kostenlose Termine an, bei denen man sein Instrument schätzen lassen kann. Gestern war Ortstermin in Mannheim, eine Gelegenheit für Martina Senghas, sich […]

Gitlis looks back over a long career and remembers his times with Jascha Heifetz and Isaac Stern Produced to celebrate the 94th birthday of violinist Ivry Gitlis, the fascinating interview below (by Tarisio) explores his long life in music, his pivotal musical relationships with Jascha Heifetz and Isaac Stern, and his very special instrument, the […]

American-born and London-based Jason Price shares highlights of a globetrotting life immersed in music and explains how he built Tarisio, the world’s premier fine-instrument auction house.    

Bij vioolhandel is authenticiteit bepalend Veilinghuis Tarisio Tariso is gespecialiseerd in de internetveiling van (vrij) dure violen en celli. Hoe werkt die handel? Wat bepaalt de waarde? In de Orange Room van het Conservatorium Hotel aan de Van Baerlestraat wordt vandaag een tiental violen verwacht. Jason Price, directeur, oprichter en taxateur van internetveilinghuis Tarisio (anno […]

Streichinstrumente richtet sein Augenmerk mehr und mehr auf den deutschen Markt. Benannt wurde das Unternehmen nach dem italienischen Sammler und Händler Luigi Tarisio (um 1790 – 1854), der zu seinen Lebzeiten eine Vielzahl von kostbaren Violinen zusammentrug. In seiner Sammlung befand sich eine makellose, ungespielte Stradivari-Geige von 1716, von der er seinen französischen Kollegen stets […]

Es sind teure Kunstwerke, mit denen das Auktionshaus Tarisio gleichsam um die Welt reist. Nun hat das in London und New York domizilierte Haus Halt in der Gare du Nord gemacht. Um Interessierten, Musikerinnen und Musikern sowie Händlern aus Basel ihre wertvollen Instrumente vorzustellen. Die Kostbarkeiten liegen schön geordnet auf tischen. Der halbrunde Jahrhundertwendesaal im […]

Instrument auction house Tarisio has launched a new ‘Buy Now’ feature. The option allows online buyers to purchase items instantly at a fixed price in advance of the bidding process. The new functionality will be used in sale at Tarisio’s October auction in London. In 2013 Tarisio introduced ‘First in, Last out’ (FILO) allowing the […]

Jason Price und seine New Yorker Firma Tarisio versteigern online historische Geigen. Vorher präsentiert man die Instrumente in Ausstellungen – am Donnerstag erstmals auch in Zürich. Eine wertvolle, hoch versicherte Fracht landet heute im Flughafen Zürich: zehn Violinen von Stradivari, Landolfi, Ga­gliano, Pressenda und anderen. Morgen werden sie im Zunfthaus zur Saffran zu sehen sein. […]

The majesty of New York City is that you can stumble across amazing stuff, even when you’re just trying to find the men’s room. That’s what happened a few weeks back when I visited Nola Rehearsal Studio on West 54th Street to watch a rehearsal of the Timeless Torches, Madison Square Garden’s middle-aged cheerleading squad. […]

Violin once played by Kathleen Szabo’s husband George is determined by Tarisio appraiser to be worth up to $100,000, but that just makes Kathleen’s decision harder. Jason Price turns the 275-year-old violin over in his hands, cradling the aged wood, running his expert eye along its varnished surface. “Fantastic,” he says. “Fantastic. That’s really a […]

New owners of violin stolen at a station cafe three years ago are said to be a British musical festival led by an English violinist A 317-year-old Stradivarius stolen from the side of an internationally acclaimed violinist in a station cafe three years ago has been sold at auction for £1.385m including the buyer’s premium. […]

The stolen Stradivarius violin that was taken from Euston station in 2010 has sold for £1.38million at auction. It belonged to London-based violinist Min-Jin Kim. The instrument was recovered three years later by police in the Midlands. Made in Cremona in Italy in 1696 by Antonio Stradivarius, it is one of an estimated 600 remaining […]

Durante los últimos días han aparecido en los medios de prensa diversas informaciones acerca de compras y ventas de violines. En primer lugar el pasado 19 de octubre se vendió por 1 millón de euros (triplicando su precio de salida) el llamado “violín del Titanic”, perteneciente a Wallace Hartley -el director de la orquesta del […]

A £1.2 million violin stolen from Euston Station in 2010 will be auctioned on 18 December 2013. The thieves struck at a Pret a Manger café outside Euston station on 29 November 2010 as violinist Min-Jin Kym stopped to get something to eat. After three years of chasing leads, police found the instrument, undamaged, in the […]

A violin that thieves tried to offload for £100 ($160) may end up selling for £2 million ($3.2 million), reports the Guardian. The 317-year-old instrument spurred a three-year police hunt that spanned international borders, ending with its recovery from a property in central England this year. Reports highlighted the guilt felt by the violin’s owner, the British prodigy Min-Jin Kym, […]

MUSIC has been Jason Price’s life. A violinist’s apprentice at 14, he bought his first cello a year later and spent his days in the music shops of his home town of Alexandria, a few miles south of Washington, the American capital. “Music was an instinct, something I had to do,” said Price. “I knew […]

LONDRES (Uypress) — Un violín Stradivarius fabricado en el año 1696 que fuera robado en una estación de tren de Londres en 2010 y recuperado este año, irá a remate, donde se estima que pueda superar los tres millones de dólares. El instrumento en cuestión pertenecía a la mundialmente famosa violinista Min-Jin Kym, nacida en […]

Tarisio will auction the instrument, which was famously stolen at London’s Euston Station, on December 18 this year Violinist Min-Jin Kym is selling her £1.2m Stradivarius, which was famously stolen at a Pret a Manger café at London’s Euston Station in November 2010, and returned to her earlier this year following a three-year police investigation across Europe. […]

A 300-year-old Stradivarius violin, which was stolen at Euston Station in 2010, when its owner went for a sandwich, could go for more than £2 million when it is sold at auction next month. The instrument was snatched by thieves from musician Min-Jin Kym, and eventually found intact in the Midlands, with some very minor […]

A Stradivarius violin stolen by thieves who tried to sell it for £100 could make more than £2 million when it is sold at auction next month. The instrument was snatched at a cafe at Euston station three years ago from acclaimed London-based musician Min-Jin Kym, who had played it since she was a teenager. […]

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The largest online archive of data on stringed instruments has been bought by an auction house planning a major website overhaul that may include removing ownership information. Tarisio, the online auction house that conducted last year’s record-setting $15.9 million online charity auction of the 1721 “Lady Blunt” Stradivari violin, purchased cozio.com in September for an […]

Antonio Stradivari left few traces when he died rich and respected in 1737. Even his birth date is guesswork. But what mattered most was already clear to contemporaries. Stradivari’s violins were so good that fake Strads soon began appearing on the market. On April 26, Tarisio, a young New York firm, will put the 1705 […]

It’s not a Strad, but maestro Lorin Maazel will have you know that his 1783 Guadagnini is second to none. “The violin is one of the spectacular examples of Guadagnini’s expertise,” Maazel says. “Everyone loves his instruments. Strad is much more known, but the truth of the matter is that there are Guads that are equal or in some […]

As a 290-year-old violin is auctioned for millions, Andy McSmith celebrates the most famous brand in musical instrument-making One of the most valuable objects ever constructed out of spruce wood and sheep gut set off a concerto of mouse clicks yesterday as bidders around the world competed in an internet auction for what is known as […]

An exceptionally well-preserved Stradivarius violin, the Lady Blunt, which fetched $10m at its last sale in 2008, is to be auctioned for charity. The 1721 violin is being sold by the Nippon Music Foundation, with the entire proceeds going to their Northeastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund. The Lady Blunt set a record price […]

In the world of violins, the Lady Blunt is royalty. Built in 1721 by Antonio Stradivari, the well-preserved violin sold for a record-breaking sum at auction in 1971. Now, it’s poised to repeat that feat. This week, the Nippon Music Foundation in Tokyo announced it will auction the instrument on June 20, with all proceeds […]

The “Molitor” Stradivari was thought to have been owned by Napoleon A Stradivari violin known as the “Molitor”, thought originally to belong to Napoleon Bonaparte, has sold on-line for a record $3.6 million. The previous world record for a musical instrument at auction was held by Christie’s, who sold the “Hammer” Stradivari at their New […]

The Japanese factory owner bows as he presents his business card to the violin whisperer. The violin whisperer bows as he presents his business card to the Japanese factory owner. That formality aside, the Japanese factory owner opens the case that rests on the polished conference table between them. “Oooh, this looks good,” says Jason […]

Tarisio, the New York-based violin auctioneer, held its first auction ten years ago this month — the first preview was held in a Boston pub. With multi-city previews and the actual bidding conducted later online, the specialist auction house nimbly took advantage of the best aspects of the brick-and-mortar approach and the new online format to […]

A new business model for old violins helps connect owners and musicians. Outside the Doris Duke Center in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, on a perfect spring night toward the end of the semester, well-dressed young people stroll on the patio and in the surrounding garden, drinking white wine and mingling, a stray goose strutting […]

It was a remarkable cello, with an equally remarkable pedigree, and by all accounts it was primed to draw a record price as serious bidding began Friday morning on the Web site of Tarisio (tarisio.com), auctioneers of fine stringed instruments and bows. Sure enough, the cello, made in 1717 by Antonio Stradivari and named after […]

The Fleming is named after Amaryllis Fleming, the half-sister of 007 author Ian Fleming. It is insured for £1.4 million A cello made by Antonio Stradivari and once owned by one of Britain’s best musicians is to be sold at an online auction next month – the first time such a rare, valuable instrument has […]

The American auction house Tarisio Auctions appraised violins, cellos and bows this weekend in Amsterdam for free. Dozens of people attended. Roland Muller from Bussum comes in with two violins under his arm. He wants to have them evaluated by Jason Price, one of the founders of Tarisio. He takes a violin from the seventies […]

A rare Stradivarius cello is expected to set a world record when it goes to auction this fall. The cello, which was owned for decades by the British cellist Amaryllis Fleming, is being sold by the online instrument auction house Tarisio and carries an estimate of $1.75 million to $2.3 million. Made in 1717, the […]

A cello bow by Francois Xavier Tourte has made nearly $200,000 in an on-line musical instruments auction. It was bought by a well-known European cellist who has chosen to remain anonymous. The bow, made between 1800 and 1810 by the maker most credited with refining the bow into the form it holds today, realised $196,000 […]

Tarisio Auctioneers has just hired Naomi Sadler, editor of The Strad, to open a London office. Initially, Sadler says, she’ll be helping to publicize Tarisio’s expansion into Europe, traveling to trades shows, making the right contacts. “Tarisio has an extremely good profile in North America,” she says. “I’ll be making sure the rest of the […]

When Jason Price told his parents that he wanted to take a year off from Williams College to make violins in northern Italy, they were “kind of shocked,” he says. A great school such as Williams would plant him firmly on a traditional path to success. Why would he want to derail himself? But sometimes […]

Tarisio’s much-anticipated sale of the Isaac Stern Collection and other important violins and bows in May [2003] more than lived up to its hype, setting a number of records as it became the second highest grossing violin auction of all time at more than $3.3 million.

Music hit the high notes, too, with Tarisio Auctions achieving at its May online sale the highest auction price ever for an early period Stradivarius violin. That was $949,500 for the concert violin used by Jan Kubelik, the late conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, for much of his career. Records also were set in […]

The economics of classical music may be in the pits, but auction prices of composers’ manuscripts and rare violins are soaring upward like those of Monets or Van Goghs .. Earlier this month an online sale by Tarisio Auctions of several rare violins became the second-highest-grossing violin auction ever, bringing in $3.3 million. Among those […]

When Jason Price, a partner at New York-based Tarisio Auctions, which specializes in fine and rare stringed instruments, received a call from somebody in Italy recently, he was startled to learn that a photograph of a Montanari violin from the company’s archive had turned up on eBay. It appeared that a fraudster had downloaded the […]

Four year-old Tarisio recorded sales of $4m last year – about a third of the global market – which [Tarisio partner] Mr. Price attributes to specialist expertise and charging lower commissions than Sotheby’s or Christie’s. The company’s success also shows that online auctions are an increasingly viable way to sell globally, even for expensive items.