Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1914 — Musical Experts Fooled. [ARTICLE]

Musical Experts Fooled.

Some mpsical experts came out badly In a test which was tried on them recently in a Paris studio. A number of violins of all ages and values, including a Stradlvarlus that had been sold for |15,000, were played on, in a darkened room, to an audience that Included many people of sound musical judgment. The instrument which they thought the finest turned out to be a Belgian violin made this year, the second place went to a French Instrument of 1911 and the Stradlvarlus came third.