The daughter of the violin's owner is NPR host Nina Totenberg. She wrote about the recovery between the time of its discovery and before its sale. http://www.npr.org/2015/08/06/427718240/a-rarity-reclaimed-s...

And he never got a penny for the theft, just a lifetime of enjoying the violin. I'm not excusing him, just commenting.

But he is now as immortal as the instrument adding himself to its provenance.

He stole another's lifetime of enjoying it.

It was a great story to read anyway.

The Beyond Beethoven recording sounds interesting, and, of course, not easily available.

Anyone listened to it?

Shame when someone with ideas is just a little too far out of the mainstream of behaviour to get the social network to launch the ideas.

Quote from OA

"Tran kept urging her husband to build a career giving music lessons. Their living room in Venice was perfect for that."

Teaching and improvising could have been a way forward with software and Web distribution. Such a shame.

PS the Mobius trio that you will find on youtube are actually three guitarists. There stuff sounds interesting as well, so I'm ahead.

Concise version, presented chronologically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_Stradivarius