One of Vanessa-Mae's violin makers instruments brings top Dollar at auction.
It was Lorin Maazel's 1783 Guadagnini. It fetched $1,080,000.
So as you can see Vanessa, may not have a Strad, but Guadagnini was a marvelous maker of violins!
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