Pawn Stars: VERY RARE VIOLIN IS ALSO VERY FAKE (Season 17) | History

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And who goes to a pawn shop with a Stradivarius

πŸ‘οΈŽ︎ 6 πŸ‘€οΈŽ︎ u/SexyBeast0 πŸ“…οΈŽ︎ Feb 04 2020 πŸ—«︎ replies

I like how they needed to call in a "violin guy" expert when any bozo could pick out the extremely poorly faked label.

I mean this would be like walking in with a limited edition "Beatles Original Pressing Vinyl" but it was spelled BEETLES on the front and have the guy say "I have a guy that knows vinyls a lot, I gotta call him in".

πŸ‘οΈŽ︎ 11 πŸ‘€οΈŽ︎ u/Boollish πŸ“…οΈŽ︎ Feb 03 2020 πŸ—«︎ replies

Gotta be kidding me... It's just tv I guess. I don't know want to be hating on them for just trying to entertain people.

I had a teacher once who was, and still is a great player and respected professor. He related this story to me once which was entertaining. Even if he has embellished a number of tales in the short time I played for him... He also once said I sounded like a dying cat once...I don't disagree. I gave up violin but oh the memories...

Anyway this one time he struck up a conversation with some random guy who wanted to buy a junky violin at an antique store where they were both at, and random guy was negotiating price with the store owner.

My teacher decides to try and play the fiddle a little and taps on the back and annouced the wood knock did not sound like an F# and hence the fiddle was worthless. The price went down in a hurry and the random guy left happy with a junk violin with a price tag he liked.

Don't know if the story was true. But I like to think that it was.

πŸ‘οΈŽ︎ 2 πŸ‘€οΈŽ︎ u/Kiasu-Phil-Orch πŸ“…οΈŽ︎ Feb 04 2020 πŸ—«︎ replies

This is so painful to watch. So many incorrect statements made in just the opening minute. Ugh.

In 2 seconds I assessed the violin as near worthless.

πŸ‘οΈŽ︎ 2 πŸ‘€οΈŽ︎ u/vmlee πŸ“…οΈŽ︎ Feb 04 2020 πŸ—«︎ replies

Holy crap that is a rough violin, even if it was a real strad I wouldn't want to pay to restore

πŸ‘οΈŽ︎ 1 πŸ‘€οΈŽ︎ u/violinrover πŸ“…οΈŽ︎ Feb 04 2020 πŸ—«︎ replies
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EDGAR: What's going on? CHUMLEE: Not much. What can I do for you? Got this violin here. It's been in my family for a very long time, Stradivarius. CHUMLEE: Stradivarius? EDGAR: Yeah. CHUMLEE: Every once in a while one comes up. It's very, very rare. I mean, we're talking big money. Even in this condition we're talking, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yeah, I've seen millions. [laughs] I have a Stradivarius violin. This violin has been in my family for a very long time. It belonged to my grandfather. I know there's a lot of copies or whatnot, but there's a lot of information that point to it being authentic. I think a reasonable price would be $700,000. CHUMLEE: What makes you think this is a Stradivarius? EDGAR: One of the things I noticed, there's a label inside, 1731. Yeah, it says right in there Antonio Stradivarius, and this is Cremona. That's the town he was from in Italy. From my understanding is the copies had to have a label on there that said copy. It became a law, actually. CHUMLEE: Antonio Stradivarius was known for making the best violin of the time. And I'm not a violin expert, but I think he was known for making the best violin of all time. EDGAR: My understanding is they have a particular sound. My grandfather purchased it because it sounded better than the violin he had. CHUMLEE: This is pretty cool, man. It's in pretty rough condition. It's got some cracks down here. It even looks like maybe at some point dad or grandpa tried to glue it back together, or maybe you did. I don't know. [laughs] Not me. But a lot of times they're in such bad condition because these were, you know, tools of the trade. People made their living off this, and they would get beat up and smashed around a lot. EDGAR: Yeah. So how much are you looking to get for it? Well, based on the condition that it's in and what they go for, $700,000 I think is fair. OK. I mean, just looking at it, to me it looks far from $700,000, but I have no idea. I have some concerns. One is the condition. You know, the condition is everything. Two, I know that once something's worth money, people fake it. There's a lot of questions I have here. EDGAR: Yeah. I'd like to call in a friend of mine and have him come down and take a look at this. Yeah, that sounds good. All right, give me a minute. Hang out. Look around. I'll call him up, get him down here, and we'll go from there. OK, sounds good. I'm happy to have an expert look at the violin today and move along with this whole process and find out what it really is. AQUILES: Check it out. Yeah, I don't know too much about Antonio Stradivarius. What was so special about his designs behind these? Ooh, man, so when you want to talk about the great violins in history, Stradivarius, that name, is the one that leads the way. You're talking the wood selection, varnish, fantastically made. They're beautiful, but they're tools. They have to perform a specific task. And for most violinists, that's a soloist. So you're talking about a person who's standing in front of anywhere between a 50- and 80-piece orchestra, and they have to be heard above that. So you need an instrument of exceptional quality and power and skill, and Stradivarius violins unsurpassed. What kind of price range is out there for these violins? AQUILES: Sure. So if this is a real Stradivarius violin-- there's one of his violas. They want $40 million for it. And it's not sold yet, but give it time. Someone will buy it. Those things, they get older and they get more valuable. Well, let's take a look at this and see if that's what we got here. I'm excited. So the first couple of things that I look at are to see if all the parts line up correctly, which this one does. But it has significant damage. His wood selection was such that when he put the varnish on his instruments and you would move it like this and it would sort of look like it's rippling. Really just majestic, beautiful. But on this violin, I'm seeing a little too much dark and even in this patch that's revealing it's a sort of a muted brown. And the inner linings of this, that line inside there is just a little too haphazard to be anything that he would have made. He doesn't make those mistakes. He takes so much time. 1731 puts it right towards the middle end of his middle period when he was making some of his absolute best stuff, his best instruments. So are you telling me you don't think this is authentic? Unfortunately, no. No. This instrument was made as an homage. So what you have is from about the 1830s to about the 1960s, really, they would mass produce these in the millions. Do you think it has any value to it? In its current shape, not a lot. Well, thanks for coming down. AQUILES: Yeah. I wish we would have hit gold with this one, but-- That's always the hope, man. That's always the hope. Can't strum all the strings. So he doesn't think it's a Strad. I'm going out to have to, you know, go with him. I'm going to have to pass on it. Well, thank you for your time. Yeah, thank you. OK. For now we'll just, you know, keep it safe. Probably make a little case for it and hang it up on the wall as a little homage to our grandfather.
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Length: 5min 31sec (331 seconds)
Published: Tue Jan 21 2020
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