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  • RARE DANIEL PARKER VIOLIN AT INGLES AND HAYDAY

    THE DANIEL PARKER VIOLIN.

    THE DANIEL PARKER VIOLIN.  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £42,000

    A rare violin by Daniel Parker – known as the English Stradivarius – comes up at Ingles and Hayday in London on November 3.  The 1716 instrument has a distinctive Italian sound. Daniel Parker worked in the shadows of St Paul’s Cathedral as it was being completed, making instruments in the early decades of the 1700s.  St Paul’s was formally completed in 1711, five years before this particular instrument, and Sir Christopher Wren died in 1717.  This period in London’s instrument-making history sees luthiers making sophisticated instruments informed by the innovations of Italian makers, with Daniel Parker producing some of the very best instruments.  Musical life in London was thriving at this time and Handel settled permanently in the city in 1712.

    Violinist Fritz Kreisler played a Daniel Parker as his regular concert instrument which subsequently became know as the ‘Kreisler Parker’.  The Ingles and Hayday auction  at Sotheby’s includes a particularly fine selection of English bows.

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