Notable Players and Owners
- Emmy Verhey, a Dutch violinist, has a 1676 violin
- Kenneth Rose, an American violinist, had a 1684 violin.
- David Laurie, a well-known British collector, had 1661 violin.
- Adelina Patti, a prominent opera singer, and Anton Hegner, a virtuoso cellist, at different times both owned a 1679 cello.
- Amit Peled, virtuoso cellist and professor at the Peabody Institute, plays a 1689 cello.
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