The Cozio Archive
Welcome to Cozio, the world’s largest reference resource for buyers, sellers and connoisseurs of fine stringed instruments and bows.
Founded in 2003 as a public registry of iconography, provenance and pricing information for historical stringed instruments, Cozio encompasses over 36,000 individual instruments and bows by over 3,500 makers. It is also the most comprehensive online source for maker biographies and provenance information, and contains over 57,000 historical auction prices.
Although most of Cozio is available to the public by subscription, it also contains photographs, documents and records of instruments and bows that are accessible only by request. If you would like information about any item that is not publicly available, please contact us.
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The ‘Dancla, Milstein, Krasner, Eto’: An exceptional Stradivari in great hands
The ‘Dancla, Milstein, Krasner, Eto’ Tarisio Private Sales is proud to present the ‘Dancla, Milstein, Krasner, Eto’ Stradivari of 1710. Acquired by the celebrated Japanese violinist Toshiya Eto in 1982, this extraordinary violin now returns to the market for the first time in more than forty years, offering a rare opportunity to become part of its remarkable history.
By Jason Price“I have played both of the instruments that Milstein used. … When I played on the ‘Dancla’ … I thought its treble register had almost supernatural power and sheen.” David Fulton The 1710 ‘Dancla, Milstein, Krasner, Eto’ is a magnificent Golden Period Stradivari, exemplifying the maker’s work at the height of his powers and from […]
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