Name: Pawn Stars: VERY RARE VIOLIN IS ALSO VERY FAKE (Season 17) | History
Uploaded: 2020-03-19T16:25:42.000Z
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Modal verbs - A2

It's been in my family for a very long time, Stradivarius.

CHUMLEE: Every once in a while one comes up.

you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars.

This violin has been in my family for a very long time.

I know there's a lot of copies or whatnot,

I think a reasonable price would be $700,000.

CHUMLEE: What makes you think this is a Stradivarius?

Yeah, it says right in there Antonio Stradivarius,

From my understanding is the copies had to have a label

CHUMLEE: Antonio Stradivarius was known for making

And I'm not a violin expert, but I think he was known for making

EDGAR: My understanding is they have a particular sound.

My grandfather purchased it because it sounded

dad or grandpa tried to glue it back together,

But a lot of times they're in such bad condition

because these were, you know, tools of the trade.

and they would get beat up and smashed around a lot.

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.

I mean, just looking at it, to me it looks far from $700,000,

Two, I know that once something's worth money,

I'd like to call in a friend of mine and have him come down

I'll call him up, get him down here, and we'll go from there.

I'm happy to have an expert look at the violin

today and move along with this whole process

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

And for most violinists, that's a soloist.

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

What kind of price range is out there for these violins?

So if this is a real Stradivarius violin--

Those things, they get older and they get more valuable.

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