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<p>[QUOTE="Rodrigo Ramirez, post: 167927, member: 2841"]Ok, first things first, I pretty much made this account just to ask your collective opinion on this item, my apologies if that is frowned upon. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, I have this very old violin. Well, actually my grandparents have this very old violin. It has been in the family for generations. It was valuated a while back, but grans lost the papers. Its a fake stradivarius, supposedly made by one of his pupils. How it landed in Mexico is anyone's guess, but land it did and my great grandparents used to practice with it. Sadly, nobody in the family has any idea of how to take care of it. Sometime later I might post the whole story, I just need to get it from the source.</p><p><br /></p><p>We have tried to get it looked at again, but for some reason or another it just hasn't worked out. So, is it worth anything? </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk35/Rigoo_photo/100_0398.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk35/Rigoo_photo/100_0400.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk35/Rigoo_photo/100_0404.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Rodrigo Ramirez, post: 167927, member: 2841"]Ok, first things first, I pretty much made this account just to ask your collective opinion on this item, my apologies if that is frowned upon. So, I have this very old violin. Well, actually my grandparents have this very old violin. It has been in the family for generations. It was valuated a while back, but grans lost the papers. Its a fake stradivarius, supposedly made by one of his pupils. How it landed in Mexico is anyone's guess, but land it did and my great grandparents used to practice with it. Sadly, nobody in the family has any idea of how to take care of it. Sometime later I might post the whole story, I just need to get it from the source. We have tried to get it looked at again, but for some reason or another it just hasn't worked out. So, is it worth anything? [IMG]http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk35/Rigoo_photo/100_0398.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk35/Rigoo_photo/100_0400.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk35/Rigoo_photo/100_0404.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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