The Missing Strad

The Story of the World's Greatest Violin Forgery

Gerald Gaul

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FriesenPress
20 October 2021

Music reviews & criticism; String instruments; True crime; Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge

Pay attention to that violin you used in high school. Look closely at the next violin you see at a garage sale. It might be worth millions of dollars.

The greatest violin ever made is not in a museum. It might be in your violin case because it was involved in a perfect forgery more than a century ago. No one noticed when the criminal got rid of the evidence by passing it on to an unsuspecting customer.

A witness is now ready to tell you the truth from beyond the grave, but only if you read the story of his famous father, the diseased and demonically possessed Niccolò Paganini.

Enter a world of murders, madness, creepy love affairs, strange historical objects, awkward musical performances, extremely valuable animal intestines, large quantities of gold . . . and a homeless decaying corpse.

By: Gerald Gaul
Imprint: FriesenPress
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 494g
ISBN: 9781039108196
ISBN 10: 1039108199
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 20 October 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gerald Gaul is the Vice-Chairman of the National Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota. He has been a violinist and a violist for half a century and is currently a violist with the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra and the World Doctor's Orchestra. Gaul has a BA in viola performance from New College of the University of South Florida and a Master's degree in violin performance from the University of North Dakota. For the last twenty years, he has studied violin bows of the classical period. When not otherwise engaged, he searches for the missing Strad.